Start the new year with an inspiring conversation between celebrated artist and photographer Vik Muniz and Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer Director at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
Muniz, whose work is part of PAMM’s permanent collection and currently featured in Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-Based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, will discuss how he explores the boundaries of photography through conceptual experimentation and materiality.
About Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz is renowned for his unique recreations of popular and art historical imagery, composed from unorthodox and unexpected materials—chocolate, sugar, scraps, junk, and more. Muniz’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including a major traveling retrospective first presented at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, in 2015. Public collections featuring his work include the Art Institute of Chicago; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others. Muniz is deeply involved in social projects that deploy art-making as a force for change. His work with catadores—pickers of recyclable materials—was featured in the 2010 Academy Award-nominated documentary Waste Land, and he was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 2011. Muniz lives and works in New York and Rio de Janeiro.
As part of PAMM’s commitment to accessibility live translation for this program will be available in Amercian Sign Language, Spanish and Haitian Creole. The program will also be streamed live, online via PAMM’s Youtube Channel.
