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Zak Ové (né en 1966) est un artiste plasticien britannique qui travaille entre la sculpture, le film et la photographie. Il vit à Londres, au Royaume-Uni, et à Trinidad . Ses thèmes reflètent « sa documentation et son intérêt anthropologique pour l’histoire de la diaspora et de l’Afrique, en particulier celle explorée dans le cadre du carnaval trinidadien « .
Zak Ové’s Moko Jumbie sculptures will be installed in the British Museum’s Sainsbury Africa Galleries from Tuesday the 28th March 2017. These works were acquired and exhibited in 2015 in the Great Court at the British Museum and now form part of the permanent African collection, the first major works acquired from a Caribbean artist.
23 de mar. de 2021 · Sculptor Zak Ové creates monumental Afrofuturistic rocket ship, but it has nowhere to land. The Buck stopped here is a weekly blog by our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck covering the ...
1 de jul. de 2018 · Zak Ové (born 1966) is a British visual artist of Trinidadian descent. His sculptural installation, The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, encapsulates the complex history of racial objectification and the evolution of black subjectivity. The title’s references—Ben Jonson’s 1605 play, The Masque of Blackness, and Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible Man—mark two milestones ...
Zak Ové (b. 1966, London, UK, lives and works in Gran Canaria) is a British/Caribbean artist with a multi-disciplinary practice across sculpture, film and photography. His work is informed in part through the history and lore carried through the African diaspora to the Caribbean, Britain and beyond with particular focus on traditions of masking and masquerade.
Zak Ové, The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, in the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden at LACMA, 2019. The work is a rebuke to The Masque of Blackness , a Jacobean-era masque written in 1605 by Ben Jonson for Queen Anne of Denmark in which the masquers, appearing in blackface makeup, were to be disguised as Africans and were to be “cleansed” of their blackness by King James.
In his powerful photographs, films, paintings, and sculptures, Zak Ové mines his own Trinidadian and Irish heritage, which he describes as “black power on one side and… social feminism on the other side.” His work delves into post-colonialism in Britain and Trinidad, the African Diaspora, contemporary multiculturalism, globalization, ...
