| 13 December 2003 - 19 February 2004
I've Abandoned Me explores van Hout's career-long reckoning
with the self-portrait genre. Many of van Hout's works consist of
dummies, doppelgangers and body doubles. This idea of art as a
kind of thwarted self-portraiture - alluded to in the show's title
- is central to I've Abandoned Me. With scepticism, humour
and a fresh perspective van Hout engages with one of the central
themes of recent art - 'the construction of identity'.
Admission Charge.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Touring exhibition. |