The south London house where Vincent Van Gogh lodged as a young man is travelling—at least in spirit—to the Arles foundation dedicated to the painter. The Dutch video artist Saskia Olde Wolbers evokes the history of 87 Hackford Road in Brixton in the film Yes, these Eyes are the Windows (2014), which will be on view at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (13 February to 24 April). The work follows Olde Wolbers’s sound installation of the same title in the now empty house, produced in collaboration with Artangel. Olde Wolbers says she treated the house as a “dilapidated ready-made film set” for a fictional narrative inspired by the myths that now surround Van Gogh’s life and work.
