"Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa" brings together sculptures by American artist Carol Bove spanning 2003 to 2014 alongside rarely seen exhibition furniture, sculptures and architectural prototypes by Venetian architect and exhibition designer Carlo Scarpa.

Centred on themes of display, the case study and experimentation, the exhibition explores the artist's and architect's distinct vocabularies, treatment of materials and approaches to providing environments for artworks.
Of different generations, training and disciplines, Bove and Scarpa are bound by concerns for the object and its environment, the nature of encountering sculpture and the ways by which objects are given meaning. Experimenting with forms, Scarpa developed a highly personal, formal display vocabulary, while Bove uses a reduced language of museological display, employing plinths and armatures to cradle natural materials and flotsam. Drawing on specimens, objects and sculptures ranging from the distant to recent past, Carol Bove and Carlo Scarpa constantly grapple with how we experience, make sense of and read history. Carol Bove repeatedly includes natural objects in her sculptures, questioning their meaning and status as ready-mades.