Collection Online as of January 16, 2022
Portrait #16, South Africa
Pieter Hugo
(South African, b. 1976)
Digital chromogenic print
Overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.67
© Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Edition: Edition of 5 + 2 Artist's Proofs
Location
not on view
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?