«Vik, 2 Years Old,» a 2014 photograph by Brazilian - American photographer Vik Muniz — This large - scale photograph (approximately 8 by 6 feet), which entered the collection through the High's 2016 Collectors Evening, is from the artist's «Album» series, for which Muniz
builds replicas of familiar moments with small pieces of discarded
vernacular snapshots pasted together to
form scenes.
Norton's project in PAFA's Historic Landmark
Building uses paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of new works that reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the
vernacular forms of folk culture.