1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pieter Hugo's Julia Clark, Cape Town, with Footnotes. #149

Pieter Hugo

Julia Clark, Cape Town, 2001, 2009

C-print

122 x 146 cm

Private collection

Julia Rosa Clark (born 1975) is a Cape Town, South Africa, contemporary artist and educator best known for her "graphically complex, textually coded and colour-rich paper installations. She graduated with a Master of Fine Art Degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2004.

Clark has worked as an artist and curator, and have been featured in international exhibitions. Her exhibits engulf the entire gallery, using the floor, walls and ceiling as canvas for her mixed media art. Often using found objects, her materials include children's toys, old boxes, and meticulous paper cutouts. The variety of styles, multitude of cutouts and use of bright color give Clark's work a fanciful feel. Three of her solo exhibitions act as a trilogy, looking into the fleeting nature of knowledge systems.

In addition to her solo exhibitions, Clark has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and collaborations, which have been well received by critics. More on Julia Clark

Pieter Hugo (South African, born 1976) is a contemporary South African artist whose work addresses issues of class, identity, violence, and privilege with photography. Hugo uses photography to document marginalized and downtrodden groups in regions of Africa, including Nigerian hyena tamers, albinos, and children who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His artistic voice is fueled by his awareness of vestigial Apartheid—his white privilege providing him the ability to produce contemporary photography, while prohibiting him from ever accessing the experience of black Africans. “A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media. 

Born on October 29, 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Hugo first began work in the Cape Town film industry, before embarking on a career in art photography. The artist continues to live and work in Cape Town, South Africa. His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. More on Pieter Hugo

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