Honorable Mention TIFA 2023 Fine Art / Other

Killing Da Vinci

  • Photographer
    Kriss Munsya
  • Technical Info
    Digital Photography Printed On Archival Paper
  • Photo Date
    2023

Killing Da Vinci is an ongoing photography series about environmental justice. I wanted to attract attention on the fact that the most marginalized communities in the American continent (Black and Indigenous) are the most affected by environmental issues. I'm making a parallel with Da Vinci's vitruvian man. That drawing was meant to represent human perfection and to me, perfection is a concept that is disconnecting beings from themselves and from each other. Through the production of technology or plastic surgery, the idea of perfection is giving us the sentiment that we will never be enough.

From a very young age, Kriss has been exploring art through drawings, photography and video. But his journey started with his long feature film “Us And Them” in 2015, shot on his hitch hike trip from New-York to Rio de Janeiro. Being on the road as a black male, shifted his vision of the world and transformed his approach of art. After having directed his first documentary, Kriss focused on photography and decided to tell his story of racism and abuse he was victim of for a long time. Saying without saying, showing without showing. That is his mantra of his latest project THE ERASER.