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Portrait #16, South Africa

Portrait #16, South Africa

2016, printed 2017
(South African, b. 1976)
Overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.)
© Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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?
  • Lemonedes, Heather. “Acquisition Highlights.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 2 (March/April 2018): 6-7. Reproduced: P. 6; Mentioned: P. 7.
  • Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/17/2018-06/06/2018): "Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017"
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait #16, South Africa|url=false|author=Pieter Hugo|year=2016, printed 2017|access-date=25 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.67