Pieter Hugo: Nollywood

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Pieter Hugo: Nollywood

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Wed 9 May, 10:00am–4:30pm
Thu 10 May, 10:00am–4:30pm
Fri 11 May, 10:00am–4:30pm
Sat 12 May, 10:00am–4:30pm
Sun 13 May, 11:00am–4:30pm

Where: PATAKA Art + Museum, Cnr Parumoana and Norrie St, Porirua - Mana Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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  • Admission: Free

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Renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo's Nollywood series goes beyond simple documentary photography to explore the multi-layered reality of the Nigerian film industry in a series of other-worldly portraits of the bizarre characters that typify Nollywood productions.

Nollywood, an industry whose prolific output is second only to Bollywood, releases up to a thousand titles a year onto the local home-video market, using cheap equipment, basic scripts, actors cast on the day of shooting and real locations. Hugo was so intrigued by Nollywood that he asked a team of actors to pose as the various characters and photographed them. The deadpan portraits of actors and others staged in 'real life' settings in Southern Nigerian cities, which are the principal centres of film production, evoke a strangely unreal world where everyday reality any myth, fact and fiction are closely intermingled.

Pieter Hugo: Nollywood - An Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane touring exhibition.

Exhibition starts 11 February 2012 until 13 May 2012.

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