Valicia Bathes in Sunday Clothes

Object Details

Artist

Vik Muniz, born Sao Paulo, Brazil 1961

Sitter

unidentified

Gallery Label

Vik Muniz drew portraits of the children of sugar cane workers he met on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts using sugar crystals on black paper, which he then photographed for the series he called "The Sugar Children." As he wipes the paper clean after creating each image and begins again, his actions and his subjects' lives take on symbolic value, suggesting that generations of cane workers have been consumed by the sugar industry.

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

1996

Object number

1998.31.6

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Photography-Photoprint

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Graphic Arts

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

African American

Figure female\child\bust

Portrait female\Valicia

Record ID

saam_1998.31.6

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7952f037c-52c1-4559-915b-206c6f310b37