Since the late 1980s Vik Muniz has recorded the camera images he makes by hand. Whether constructed in two or three dimensions, his work uses non-traditional materials ranging from chocolate, thread, dust, toy soldiers and diamonds. He often references well known paintings, sculptures, or historical photographs. Like many artists of his generation, Muniz questions photography’s truth-telling capacity, and explores how our culture of images – reproductions made in print, on television and the computer – impact visual experience. His photographs blur the line separating abstraction from representation, and explore how visual information is constructed, presented and received. Fascinated by techniques of photography – its capacity for deception,... MORE
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