For the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Torkwase Dyson debuts Tougaloo, an immersive sculptural installation with sound.

Working within a distinct abstract language, which the artist terms  “Black Compositional Thought,” Dyson employs forms refracted from histories of Black self-emancipation to explore the spatial dimensions of freedom. Presented at the Arsenale, Tougaloo draws on the artist’s experience at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, a campus where nineteenth-century plantation architecture exists alongside Modernist structures.

The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is on view from Saturday, 9 May to Sunday, 22 November 2026.