{"id":2691,"date":"2010-04-12T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:44:00","slug":"pieter-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Pieter Hugo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pieterhugo.com\/selected-work\/nollywood\/nollywoodomo.jpg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/nollywoodomo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omo Omeonu, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following his popular solo NYC show,\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hyena and Other Men,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which captures street performers (and their children) with their muzzled hyenas during off-hours in large-format photographs, Hugo takes theatricality a step further in his new body of work, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nollywood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Using actors from the flourishing Nigerian film industry, the result is the bone-chilling manifestation of a collective nightmare \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a place where the real and unreal are often difficult to tease apart \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the devil sits next to his demure and turbaned wife or a dwarf confronts you in the jungle with a sword in hand. Using the many existing stock characters of popular Nollywood cinematic culture, Hugo goes far beyond standard documentary work. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgotten the visceral belly-churning of experiencing something so different, so alarming, that you are startled into self-conscious awareness of your own perceived normalcy, let the bare-footed masked man (wearing only a trench coat, bowler hat, large fake ears, and carrying a hatchet) take you away. The traffic is blurred behind him, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll wonder if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the only one who can see him (Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pieterhugo.com\/selected-work\/the-hyena-other-men\/12.jpg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/pieterhyena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mummy Ahmadu and Mallam Mantari Lamal with Mainasara, Abuja, Nigeria 2005<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his popular solo NYC show,\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hyena and Other Men,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which captures street performers (and their children) with their muzzled hyenas during off-hours in large-format photographs, Hugo takes theatricality a step further in his new body of work, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nollywood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}