A twisting journey through new and recent works by Ronnie van Hout. Christchurch-born and now based in Melbourne, Van Hout is well known for his funny and haunting variations on the self-portrait, from mannequins through to lo-tech videos.

In Who goes there his absurdist installations have grown larger, stranger and darker.

Unfolding through a series of linked rooms, the journey takes in peepholes, failed robots, doll-sized portraits of the artist, something strange and new from Antarctica, and above all a series of shadowy, room-sized sculptures that evoke the wayward workings of memory.

Ronnie van Hout Failed Robot [Detail], 2007. Polystyrene, fibre glass and paint. Reproduced courtesy of the artist. Private collection, Melbourne

For more information visit http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/Exhibitions/2009/RonnievanHout/