Homepage

Accessibility links

  • Skip to content
  • Accessibility Help
Close menu
BBC World Service
In the Studio
  • Home
  • Episodes
  • Clips
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us
  • Subscribe to our Newsletter
  • Join us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
Main content

In the StudioBrazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your BrainVik Muniz works: a taster

All images courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery

  • Recreating Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers in magazine collage
  • Drawing clouds over Manhattan with the smoke trails from a plane
  • Making art out of an unfinished plate of spaghetti
  • In case you ever wondered what Sigmund Freud would look like in chocolate
  • A recreation of J.B.C. Corot's Le Songeur (The Dreamer) from 1854 using 16,200 yards of yarn
  • The back of the Mona Lisa. Can you spot the sign that says this way up in French?
  • Making giant pictures with bulldozers that are then photographed from helicopters
  • A castle on a grain of sand
  • Torn strips of coloured paper but some are real and others are photographed. Can you spot the illusions?

This gallery is from

  • In the Studio—Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain

    Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion

    BBC World Service

Galleries

  • Mango Season—Andrea Hernández: Photographing Venezuela

  • Jenn Lee at London Fashion Week SS24—Jenn Lee: Taiwan fashion designer

  • IRISH COSTUME ARCHIVE PROJECT—Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh: Designing costumes for the Irish screen

  • Carving with the layers of history—Vhils: Crafting a mural for UNESCO headquarters

See all galleries from In the Studio (12)

Related Content

Similar programmes

By genre:

  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

By format:

  • Magazines & Reviews
BBC World Service homepage
  • Online schedule
  • Help & FAQs
  • Contact us
  • News in more than 40 languages
  • Terms of Use
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Parental Guidance
  • Contact the BBC
  • Make an editorial complaint
  • BBC emails for you
  • Advertise with us
Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology