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  • Provenance

    Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

  • Literature

    P. Hugo, Permanent Error, Munich: Prestel, 2011, p. 25
    Pieter Hugo: This Must be the Place, Munich: Prestel, 2012, p. 153

  • Catalogue Essay

    ‘It is a very strange, surreal place, where time seems suspended.’

    Pieter Hugo

    Ghana’s Agbogbloshie dump, a vast wasteland of discarded electronics, is the setting of Pieter Hugo’s Permanent Error series, which focuses on the local people who sort through and burn down the e-waste, extracting small bits of metal for resale amidst the toxic air. Using a medium-format camera, Hugo captured these striking images, giving his powerful figures and the noxious landscape equal presence within the frame.

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Al Hasan Abukari, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana from Permanent Error

2009
Chromogenic print, flush-mounted.
Image: 82 x 82 cm (32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.)
Frame: 101 x 101 cm (39 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)

Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 2/10 on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £12,500

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