Permanent Error Exhibition

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 on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie in Ghana.

This wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology.

 Agbogbloshie is a reminder of the alien circumstances that are imposed on marginal communities of the world by the West's obsession with consumption and obsolesce.

In this exhibition Hugo also raises debates about the representation contained within the photographic frame. The context of these images and the fluidity of reality, in relation to the static image, will be seen in a multi-screen installation of footage filmed in Agbogbloshie.

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