Installation view of the exhibition Refuge at 21C Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR, featuring Zak Ové, Inheritance, 2011-12, Mixed Media, 154 x 166 x 56 cm.
Refuge explores the contemporary human condition through depictions of needing, seeking, and creating shelter. Ranging from paintings and photographs to model trains and boats, these multi-media artworks combine realism and fantasy, the mythical and the mundane, in images and objects that highlight our shared vulnerability.