33 – Vik Muniz

Brazil (1961)
Album
Façade Hôtel des Trois Couronnes et Château de l'Aile
Outdoor
Indoor

A leading figure on the contemporary art scene, Vik Muniz rose to fame by repurposing various objects and materials to reproduce well-known images. For Album, he collected numerous family archives belonging to anonymous individuals, found at flea markets, categorized them by subject matter, and meticulously assembled them into entirely new, large-scale compositions. The installation nostalgically recalls the practice of pasting photos into albums, guardians of memory and foster the passing of memory between generations.

In collaboration with the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes and the Château de l’Aile