
Don Quixote in his Study, after William Lake Price
2004
A meticulous recreation of William Lake Price's Victorian-era photographic tableau, this work by Vik Muniz reimagines the legendary knight-errant Don Quixote surrounded by the books and armor that consumed his imagination and led to his legendary madness. True to Muniz's practice of questioning the nature of images and representation, the work layers multiple histories of illusion — from Cervantes' fictional hero to Price's staged photography — inviting viewers to consider how we construct meaning from what we see. The piece reflects Muniz's enduring fascination with the act of looking itself, challenging the boundary between the real and the reproduced.
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