"The film is a rumination upon identity and place filmed within the artist’s front yard in Melbourne. In the first colour section, van Hout plays a US soldier in a war film and recites from The Other Face to be (1913), a rhetorical poem by De Stijl founder, Theo van Doesburg, pseudonym of Christian Emil Marie Küpper (1883-1933)... In The Other Face to be, van Doesburg explores the tension between individual and collective processes of identity formation. His text resonates with the modern idea of progress through the emancipation of individuals from prescribed identities."
Ghosting (2020)
Other works by Ronnie van Hout
Ronnie van Hout
The Elvis Presley movie (1981)
An interview and performance by Christchurch-based Elvis impersonator, Ritchie Venus.
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Exhibition review
Tensions between group identities and individual voices are teased out by van Hout in this latest exhibition.