id: 297989 accession number: 2017.67 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.67 updated: 2022-01-04 18:06:35.427000 Portrait #16, South Africa, 2016, printed 2017. Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). Digital chromogenic print; overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.67 © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York title: Portrait #16, South Africa title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2016, printed 2017 creation date earliest: 2016 creation date latest: 2016 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York --- culture: South Africa technique: digital chromogenic print department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 21st Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: Edition of 5 + 2 Artist's Proofs support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Acquisitions opening date: 2018-03-17T04:00:00 Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/17/2018-06/06/2018): "Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: The brothers' pose echoes an iconic photograph of a child killed during a 1976 uprising against apartheid. digital description: Hugo’s series depicts Rwandan and South African children born after 1994, a year marked by Rwandan genocide and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Without direct experience of those horrors, can these children escape past hatreds and build a better world? wall description: Pieter Hugo’s series 1994 depicts Rwandan and South African children born after 1994, a year marked by Rwandan genocide and the end of apartheid in South Africa. In 1994, Hugo prompts the viewer to question: “Without direct experience of the horrors of their countries’ recent tragic histories, can these children escape past hatreds and build a better world?”

The pose assumed by the boys in this photograph is reminiscent of two images of sacrifice: the Virgin cradling Christ’s body after the Crucifixion and an iconic photograph of a South African child killed during the Soweto uprising against apartheid in 1976. Through its layered references, Portrait #16, South Africa poetically brings together past, present, and future. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES