Vik Muniz in Buenos Aires

“Vik Muniz is a great creator who questions reality through photography, while at the same time we admire the beauty of the images he produces,” Aníbal Jozami, the dean of the University and director of the MUNTREF (the University Museum) commented. This postcard of Buenos Aires “is an image that has a profound meaning and that fills us with satisfaction, since it reflects a typical landscape of our city, although it has been constructed using innumerable photographic fragments of other places. This is the reason why Vik identifies it as a postcard of nowhere.”

For her part, Diana B. Wechsler, director of the UNTREF’s Department of Art and Culture points out: “Vik is a photographer who questions himself about photography, the conditions for its production and reading, His aesthetic proposal relies on the tension between the process and the work. He exhibits before the viewers photographs that may be the point of departure for a narrative that allows them to recover different dimensions present in the image. In this sense, the image of Buenos Aires epitomizes as many interpretive experiences as the viewer is capable of developing according to his or her cultural capital, thinking in terms of visual culture; as an artist, he offers himself as an intermediary.”

The show will be complemented by guided tours, workshops, and the screening of a film. There will be guided tours on Saturdays and Sundays at 5 pm. A series of workshops will also be held: collage and photography for children on Saturdays and Sundays at 3 pm; collage with artists, with the participation of Eduardo Stupía, Rosanna Schoijett and Gabriel Di Giuseppe. The film Waste Land, focusing on Vik Muniz’s work at the Jardim Gramacho, will be featured on Saturdays at 3 pm.

The opening is scheduled for Thursday, May 21 at 1 pm, at the MUNTREF, Center for Contemporary Art, Hotel de Inmigrantes venue. Avenida Antártida Argentina 1355.