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Portrait #16, South Africa

2016, printed 2017

Pieter Hugo

(South African, b. 1976)
Culture
South Africa
Medium
digital chromogenic print
Measurements
Overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.67
Edition
Edition of 5 + 2 Artist's Proofs
Copyright
© Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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The brothers' pose echoes an iconic photograph of a child killed during a 1976 uprising against apartheid.

Description

Hugo’s series depicts Rwandan and South African children born after 1994, a year marked by Rwandan genocide and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Without direct experience of those horrors, can these children escape past hatreds and build a better world?
A horizontally oriented photograph depicts two children with medium-dark skin tone standing in a field of white flowers. Both wear serious expressions. The older child is holding the younger child in their arms.

Portrait #16, South Africa

2016, printed 2017

Pieter Hugo

(South African, b. 1976)
South Africa

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