Vik Muniz: Flora Industrialis

The exhibition "Flora Industrialis" results from Brazilian artist Vik Muniz's (Brazil, 1961) participation in the MUN's Tender Puentes artistic residency program. Muniz, who already exhibited some of his most iconic works at the Museum in the fall of 2020, is now inspired by the engravings and drawings from the 19th-century Latin American flora albums in the Universidad de Navarra Museum Collection. The exhibition runs from October 18, 2023, to February 25, 2024.
From the Enlightenment, the explorers took drafting technicians and scientists who patiently and carefully recorded the findings of each trip. These voyages resulted in sketchbooks and volumes of expeditions and treasures from the end of the 17th century. These works, which visitors can contemplate in the exhibition A Promised Land, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Birth of Photography, inspire the artist to create a new flora, a "Flora Industrialis" that questions our approach to reality in a world of technology and various representations.
Following his work process and constant innovation in using diverse materials as an artistic medium, Muniz turns a handful of artificial flowers into a delicate botanical catalog of his invention captured in photographs—an unexpected journey through a botanical universe born of his creativity.
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