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His assistant Fabio tells artist Muniz, "Well first of all the place is surrounded by favelas owned by the drug traffic." (0:07)

Muniz tells his wife Brooke, "They're all drug addicts." (0:10)

Muniz tells Fabio, "I don't see people depressed." (0:16)

Union president Tiao's young daughter tells him what she wants to be: "A psychologist."
Tiao: "Did you know that psychologists take care of crazy people?"
"No? So what do psychologists do?"
Daughter: "And she told me that if I wanted I could be a psychologist." (0:33)

Garbage picker Suelem tells Muniz, "Their father is a drug dealer." (0:47)

Suelem: "I'm proud of my work because at least I'm not involved with the drug traffic." (0:51)

Muniz: "They died from drug traffic..." (1:04)

Picker Isis: "The sad story is that I lost my son when he was three years old. I saw my son died when he was three years old... I saw him dying. Breathing his last breaths and everything... They called me to identify my son's body... The only thing I didn't do was do drugs, thank God. But I started going out and drinking and getting wasted. I started drinking moonshine all the time." (1:07)

Fabio: "And I think it has a lot to do with denial." (1:10)

Muniz: "I had to buy a lot of crap to get rid of that complex." (1:27)

Bereavement | complex | denial | psychologist

Vik Muniz 2010


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