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BELGIUM / Brussels: Vik Muniz
by Modem
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until Saturday May 30 2015

Galerie Daniel Templon
T : + 32 (0)2 537 13 17
Rue Veydt 13A - Veydtstraat 13A
Brussels
Belgium

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is exhibiting at Galerie Templon in Brussels for the first time, where he will be showing Album, an exhibition of new photographs.

Muniz is known for his use of unlikely materials such as dust, toys, wire, caviar and diamonds to recreate images drawn from our collective memory. He is a photographer who uses metaphor as a new medium, questioning the nature of representation.
In Album, Muniz explores the relationship between the personal and the universal, piecing together archetypal scenes from family photo albums using thousands of found black and white photos he has collected over the years. A proud father displaying the fish he has caught, a young boy dressed as a cowboy, a museum visit: each scene is packed with reassembled fragments of other memories. Muniz’s vision, both nostalgic and harsh, shows us a world where torn-up slivers of lives help to create something new, something larger and more beautiful.

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