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Pieter Hugo: Nollywood

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

Exhibition Details

Hire fee: $3000 + GST (not inclusive of freight)
Recommended space requirements: 70-100 metres running space
Insurance value: $40,000
Dates Available: to end of 2011
Works: 20 prints mounted on aluminium, 110 x 110cms - 1 DVD of interview with Pieter Hugo
Crates: 1, 164 x 57 x 130cms
Exhibition support material:

Floor notes for photocopying
Museum captions
Media disk and Press release
Venue response form

Download: Touring Information (PDF format)

For complete information about this project please contact the ACP Program Department

Tony Nolan, Program & Touring Coordinator
tel +61-2 9332 1455 (ext. 204)
fax +61-2 9331 6104

IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Chris Nkulo and Patience Umeh. Enugu, Nigeria 2008
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Dike Ngube and Gold Gabriel
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Emeka Onu. Enugu, Nigeria 2008
IMAGE © Pieter Hugo Mr Enblo. Enugu, Nigeria 2008