Delivering his endless, whingy monologue from a tilted chair, the figure in this work combines two incarnations of artist Ronnie van Hout – his childhood self, sick at home and full of self-pity, and the grown-up version who’d love you to give his work your full attention. It’s not flattering, but hey, this is show business. All the bits that don’t fit start to catch your eye: the bad wig, the adult face, the hands and feet jammed onto a child’s body, that unhealthy pallor. This monstrous mashup is ersatz – an inferior duplicate; a living, whining illustration of how our past, present and alternate selves sometimes jostle each other for space.

(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)