Diaspora Cloud by Vik Muniz

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Jun 6 2018 - Jun 30 2018

Bruce Museum

Greenwich, CT

On June 6, 2018, the Bruce Museum raised artist Vik Muniz ’s Pledges of Allegiance flag, Diaspora Cloud. The flag will fly over the front entrance of the Museum through the end of the month. 

Pledges of Allegiance is a nationwide art project organized by the New York-based public arts nonprofit Creative Time. The flag will be on view at 19 cultural institutions and universities across 16 states.

Muniz’s Diaspora Cloud features a cloud floating against a blue background, evoking a geographically and temporally dispersed public that nevertheless share a similar viewpoint. The flag cleverly cites Clouds, his Creative Time project from 2001. In the public art project, clouds were “drawn” over the Manhattan skyline by a crop-dusting plane re-worked for skywriting. Muniz uses the sky as a metaphor for the ephemerality of connection within a community.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

  • Fiber Arts
  • Contemporary
  • Political / Satire / Documentary
  • Vik Muniz

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