Artist:
Judi Werthein (born 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, New York).

Materials:
Single channel video, HD, color, sound; 13 min.

Description:
A performance recorded at the site of The Sonneveld House—considered an emblematic historic example of Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism—Werthein’s film reenacts an uneventful day in the house. A family of immigrants in the Netherlands born in Surinam, Curacao, and South Africa impersonate the original Sonneveld family. With dignified presence and measured gestures their ‘use’ of the functional and luxurious house affects a fracture in the order of representation which in turn plays unto the gaze as a ghostly scene.

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