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Cristina de Middel
This is What Hatred Did
Dec 15, 2021 - Jan 15, 2022
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“I normally stay on the surface of things, because I believe it is the most interesting part, the one that’s visible, but try to understand why that last layer is the one that’s visible and sometimes it helps you understand the problem much better. I work at the surface but I question and analyse it.“
- Cristina de Middel
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This is what hatred did is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuola’s novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
When it was published in 1954, the novel provoked such violent reactions that Tutuola was obliged to leave Nigeria. Its concluding phrase is the starting point for photographer Cristina de Middel's interpretation of the tenebrous story based in the streets of Makoko, a watery slum in the city of Lagos.
The project merges Tutuola’s original story with the reality of a country suffering under the heavy burden of African stereotypes. De Middel plays with the double narrative offered by text and image, and the layers of meaning produced by their union. What emerges is a grey zone between documentary and fiction that seeks to cast light upon a complex and inscrutable continent.
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This is what hatred did is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuola’s novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
When it was published in 1954, the novel provoked such violent reactions that Tutuola was obliged to leave Nigeria. Its concluding phrase is the starting point for photographer Cristina de Middel's interpretation of the tenebrous story based in the streets of Makoko, a watery slum in the city of Lagos.
The project merges Tutuola’s original story with the reality of a country suffering under the heavy burden of African stereotypes. De Middel plays with the double narrative offered by text and image, and the layers of meaning produced by their union. What emerges is a grey zone between documentary and fiction that seeks to cast light upon a complex and inscrutable continent.