Waste Land is an incredible documentary that follows Vik
Muniz, an artist, to the wasteland in Brazil. Vik Muniz was able to work with
adults and a couple of young people, their life after intervention were never
the same. I really love the fact that this artist was very connected to, not
only with the sociopolitical situation in the area and his art, but also to
the people.
Vik was able to make a social change in a rather ignored community.
I think that what brought success to Vik’s projects was the optimism and hope.
I began to see and understand the difference in art and types of artists. Some artist,
such as Frida Kahlo, did art to connect to herself; it was very personal. Other
artists choose to just contemplate and record the aesthetics of the world, like
Edward
Burtynsky. Vik, on the other hand, is an artist that tried to
connect to other people; and you can see that on his art.
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