Brazilian artist Vik Muniz takes familiar images remembered from endless reproductions and recreates them from memory, using household materials like sugar, chocolate, and thread, or in this case, paint pigment. He then uses the camera to record them. Muniz creates a witty and uncanny effect by translating these well-known images into strange visual puzzles. We can either suspend disbelief by imagining the original photograph which inspired his invention, or think of his work as virtuoso drawings which last only seconds for the camera before melting or disintegrating.
VIK MUNIZ (Brazilian, 1961)
Chromogenic print
Acquired in 2006
