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| Telmo Martins, member of the Orquestra Geração (Photo: Maria Vlachou) |
A few
years ago, I saw the documentary Waste Land. It is about the work the Brazilian visual artist Vic Moniz created together with
garbage pickers at the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, in the outskirts
of Rio de Janeiro. Moniz said that he wished to change the lives of a group of
people with the same materials they deal with every day. So, together they used
garbage to create large-size portraits of the garbage pickers, which were later
sold in auction and the money was distributed among the garbage pickers. The
works were presented in exhibitions in a number of contemporary art museums.
