Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Pieter Hugo. For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom [...]
Categories: exhibition,photography
Tagged: Cape Town, exhibition, Ghana, Michael Stevenson, Permanent Error, photography, Pieter Hugo, solo show, South Africa
Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop When the wind blows, the cradle will rock When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall And down will come baby, cradle and all. The video Lull and related prints Water’s Edge together form the first body of work in a series titled Black Smoke Rising. Set in an apparent [...]
Categories: contemporary art,exhibition
Tagged: Berni Searle, Black Smoke Rising, burning, déjà vu, escape, foreigners, frustration, fuel, Michael Stevenson, poverty, smoke, South Africa, time, toxic, tyres, unemployment, wilderness
Following on from Hottentots Holland: Flora Capensis, Andrew Putter again makes use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future. Putter focuses on the ‘Wild Coast’ of South Africa in his new series of portraits. Many Europeans were shipwrecked along this coast in the 1600s and 1700s. Most [...]
Categories: contemporary art,exhibition,photography
Tagged: African Hospitality, Andrew Putter, Cape Town, George Morland, history, Michael Stevenson, South Africa, Wild Coast
Extra City presents the project Avenue Patrice Lumumba by Guy Tillim in collaboration with the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren a few months before the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence from Belgium. Avenue Patrice Lumumba is an examination of modern history in Africa against the backdrop of its colonial and post-colonial architectural heritage. It travels through numerous [...]
Categories: contemporary art,exhibition,photography
Tagged: Africa, Angola, Antwerp, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, DR Congo, Extra City, Guy Tillim, Kunsthal Antwerpen, Madagascar, Michael Stevenson, Mozambique
