Diaspora Cloud, Vik Muniz

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Vik Muniz, Diaspora Cloud
Vik Muniz, Diaspora Cloud
Vik Muniz
Diaspora Cloud
2017
Vik Muniz, artist
born 1961
Diaspora Cloud, 2017
Portfolio/Series title: Pledges of Allegiance
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: cloth; brass
Accession number: EL2018.027
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Pledges of Allegiance

Award-winning, Brazilian-born photographer and mixed-media artist Vik Muniz’s Diaspora Cloud features a simple cloud floating against a sky-blue background.

The flag cites an earlier work of Muniz’s, which was commissioned by Creative Time in 2001; in his original Clouds, Muniz created a “lowtech illusion” wherein clouds were drawn over the Manhattan skyline with a crop-dusting plane re-worked for skywriting.

Diaspora Cloud, in title and image, may suggest a geographically and temporally dispersed public coming together to imagine new, if ephemeral, forms of community.

Exhibitions

Pledges of Allegiance
2017–2018