FLAT NOODLE SOUP TALK (SIGNED)
Pieter Hugo
FLAT NOODLE SOUP TALK (SIGNED)
Photographs: Pieter Hugo
Publisher: Editions Bessard
88 pages
Year: 2016
Price: 90 €
Comments: Hardcover, color photographs, 17 x 22 cm. Two pages are marked (see picture n°12 of the tattooed person), otherwise in very good condition. First edition of 500 copies. Signed by Pieter Hugo. Design by Ramon Pez
These photographs were taken in Beijing during a month-long residency. Prior to visiting China I had no real sense of this vast country. China had never formed part of my long-term plans or interests. When I was invited to participate in the residency, I decided to go almost as a challenge to my lack of intrigue. I treated it as an experiment. I loved Beijing: its people, its cuisine, its scale. It is huge and frenetic in a way I have never encountered before. Its massive crowds have a way of amplifying one’s sense of being an outsider – making it the most existential place I have ever experienced, especially since no one speaks English.
I started the project by discreetly spreading the news that I wanted to make family portraits. Through this process I met someone who became my access point into Beijing’s younger, brasher side. My photographs focused on the contrasts or juxtapositions that animate present-day China. They include portraits of an older generation of people who grew up under the revolution and made incredible sacrifices for the country, alongside portraits of a younger generation – most of them art students – who have grown up in a post-revolutionary consumer society which is highly constrained and mediated by the state. Consumerism has become a religion for the youth, as well as a way of directing their alienation. In a way, Beijing now is similar to what I imagine the US must have been like before AIDS in the early 1970s
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