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Vik Muniz Biography

Vik Muniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvik muˈnis]; born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working in series, Muniz incorporates the use of quotidian objects such as diamonds, sugar, thread, chocolate syrup and garbage in his practice to create bold, ironic and often deceiving imagery, gleaned from the pages of pop culture and art history. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide.

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I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

Fooled, Instead, Order, People, Reality

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

Back, Fall, Falls, Mean, Reality, Reconstruct

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

Complex, Ideas, People, Storyteller, Talking, Time

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are. . . branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

Capillary, Develops, Look, Looks, Moving, Tree

I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to change people's lives with your art. What you do is you give them a little pat so that you change the course of the direction that they're going.

Art, Artist, Direction, Measure, People, Thinking

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

Beautiful, Combination, Moments, Sound, Sounds, Thing

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

Drawing, Drawings, Photograph, Tired, Whenever

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

Intention, Keep, Littles, Looks, See, Time

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

Media, Perception, Pictures, Way, World

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

Aware, Derived, Illusion, Information, Make, People

I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.

Art, Discernment, Relationship, Technology, Thinking, Understand

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.

Army, Maintain, Painting, People, Technicians

Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist. " It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist. "

Artist, Eye, Humane, Think, Thinking, Whole

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Art, Ground, Magic, Thinking

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.

Confused, Defined, Hate, Photographer, Photography, Think

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

Everything, Kind, Light, Seeing, Think, Thinking

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Art, Intelligent, Challenges, Smart, Challenge, Everybody

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.

Art, Come, Dark, Empowering, Force, Work