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Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist known for his inventive and playful use of materials and media to create images that challenge the perception and interpretation of the viewer. His works often reference art history, popular culture, and social issues, while exploring the relationship between reality and representation. In 1995, Muniz created a series of color photographs titled Deslocamentos (Displacements), which he later revisited in collaboration with Graphicstudio. The result was a group of three photogravures, Sashimi, Bamby, and Karate, that reproduced the original photographs using traditional etching techniques.
The photogravures have a striking contrast between the empty shapes and the captions, creating a visual tension and a curiosity about the missing images. The shapes are irregular and crumpled, suggesting a casual and careless gesture of discarding or hiding the information. The captions, on the other hand, are clear and legible, but they are also vague and enigmatic, inviting the viewer to speculate and imagine what the images might have been.
