Masque of Blackness by Zak Ové, Somerset House, London, 04 Oct 2016.
Masque of Blackness by Zak Ové, in the Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court Somerset House to launch 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Inspired by, and in reaction to, the heritage of Somerset House and an early Jacobean era court masque, Ové's resin and jesmonite sculptures will place a Nubian army of masked men within the fountains, reclaiming the grand surroundings of historical British establishment for ‘diasporic beauty’.
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