Zak Ové

• Region: London
• Type: Talk
• Cost: Free

Friday 20th September, 19:00-20:30

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Please join us for a free talk and glass of wine with the artist Zak Ové.

Zak Ové is a British-Trinidadian artist whose work draws from the African diaspora, emphasising masking and masquerade as symbols of self-emancipation. His notable large-scale public artworks include ‘The Mothership Connection,’ showcased at Frieze 2023.

Schedule

Arrivals and wine: 7pm

Talk: 7.30pm-8.30pm

This is an AAH event, part of Art History Festival 2024 organised by the Association for Art History

Speaker’s Biography

Zak Ové is a British/Caribbean artist whose artworks are informed through the history and lore carried through the African diaspora to the Caribbean, Britain, and beyond, with particular focus on the contradictions of masking and masquerade as a tool of self-emancipation. His artworks are a celebration of the power of play and myth, both in spirit and imagination, that future and potential futures, through the fantastical, can shed the burden of history and see the past in a new light. Ové’s has produced large-scale artworks for public and private commissions. ‘The Mothership Connection,’ a 9m totemic sculpture recently exhibited at Frieze 2023. ‘Moko Jumbie,’ for Art Gallery Ontario, a similar artwork is on permanent display at The British Museum. Ové’s most recent public artwork, ‘Jumbie Jubilation,’ is revealed in Notting Hill this June 2023. Ové’s large scale installation ‘The Invisible Man and The Masque of Blackness’ has been shown across the UK and west coast USA. Ové curated the acclaimed exhibition, GET UP STAND UP NOW: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, London, 2019.

Location

70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ