ZAK OVÉ

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.” Hiswork delves into post-colonialism in Britain and Trinidad, the AfricanDiaspora, contemporary multiculturalism, globalization, and the blend ofpolitics, tradition, race, and history that informs our identities.Influenced by the pioneering films of his father, Horace Ové, Zak Ovébegan his artistic career with a series of exuberant photographs of theparticipants in Trinidad’s vibrant, multivalent Carnival. He later madeforays into sculpture, which he approaches as a form of narrative.Through his sculptural figures, concocted from a dynamic assortment ofmaterials, and resembling African and Trinidadian statuary, Ové playswith notions of identity, positing the self as complex, open, andinterconnected.