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Nollywood | Term 2 Student Exhibition | Infestation
Pieter Hugo: Nollywood
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Friday 12 June to Saturday 11 July
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 1
The Nigerian film industry is the third largest film industry in the world, releasing between 500 and 1000 movies every year. Low budget, violent and excessive, most Nollywood productions take just 10 days to make, yet they are wildly popular in the lucrative African VCD market - an average film sells 50,000 copies. Nollywood movies now outsell Hollywood films in Nigeria and many other African countries.
For this series of portraits, Pieter Hugo collaborated with Nollywood actors to recreate the stereotypical scenarios that characterise their productions. His assortment of characters includes mummies, satanic demons and decomposing corpses, casually posing in the backlots of Enugu. With an eye for the absurd, he pays tribute to a unique industry that has stood up to the giants of the entertainment industry and come out on top.
Accompanying this exhibition will be a selection of Nollywood movie trailers in Gallery 2. Images courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town and Yossi Milo, New York
See Also: Nollywood Babylon - More Information: www.sff.org.au
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Dike Ngube and Gold Gabriel
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Emeka Onu. Enugu, Nigeria 2008
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Mr Enblo. Enugu, Nigeria 2008
Workshop Term 2 Student Exhibition
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Thursday 2 July to Saturday 11 July
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 3
Experience both new and time-honored approaches to photographic practice in the Workshop Term 2 Student Exhibition. Work is displayed in ACP Gallery 3, providing students a platform to showcase their work, share ideas and take pleasure in what has been achieved.
IMAGE © Biorn McGinley, LightingIMAGE © Mike Miller, Camera Craft 3
IMAGE © James Allen, Camera Craft 1
Penelope Cain: Infestation
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Friday 12 June to Saturday 11 July
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery 4
Like an amateur urban anthropologist, Penelope Cain uses evolutionary theory, behavioural science and a dash of humour to tease out what it is that makes us human within the urban environments we inhabit. In this installation the walls, corners, nooks and crannies of the ACP are temporarily infested by a new phylum.
Penelope Cain is a Sydney artist who playfully uses animal and plant based metaphors to interrogate the contemporary human condition. Infestation points to the way our individual freedoms are sometimes lost to the seductive illusions of salary and career.
IMAGE © Penelope Cain Infestation 2008IMAGE © Penelope Cain Infestation 2009
IMAGE © Penelope Cain Infestation 2009
IMAGE © Penelope Cain Infestation 2009