Art Monday: Pieter Hugo

August 24, 2009

In his travels through West Africa, Pieter Hugo has been intrigued by Nollywood films and their distinct style in constructing a fictional world where everyday and unreal elements intertwine.

By asking a team of actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets, Hugo initiated the creation of a verisimilar reality.

His vision of the film industry’s interpretation of the world results in a gallery of hallucinatory and unsettling images.

Via Archibald Kobayashi.


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