Kíra Krász

New green Tiles (2024) is part of my A Living Sense of Home series, that I am working on since 2021. The project focuses on life inside trees, that we cannot see. Insects, bugs and little creatures that do an important job but they are not directly visible to human eyes.

The interior images in this series were carefully selected, either to create an interesting atmosphere or a new meaning. When I found this photo of roofers on a house at my local flea market, I immediately knew it would be part of this series. The tree, I photographed in Normandy (France) had half of it’s top section missing, being dried out so montaging some roof-repair into it seemed to be the matching idea. I printed the original photograph on the back of an old wallpaper I found there, so it gained some nice yellow shades to go with the photograph from the 1940’s.

Kíra Krász was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1995. She currently lives in Hungary and is studying for a Masters Degree in Fine Art at the Hungarian University of Fine Art, in Budapest. She graduated in BA (Hons) Photography from the University of Brighton(UK) in 2019, winning the Photoworks award for her final project, Thought after Taught. Since then her works have been exhibited in various countries across Europe. In 2021 she received a scholarship for her ongoing project, From Marble to Stone. Her work was presented at Hangar for the exhibition In the Shadow of Trees in 2022 and her series A Living Sense of Home won the Leica Coup de Coeur prize.

Her work focuses on the interaction between images and their physical properties. She explores the possibilities of photography, experimenting in printing techniques, overlaying images, textures and installation. Her aim is to achieve a state of “timelessness” in terms of creating images, whether by selecting old photographs, papers that have been aged, working with traditional techniques in a darkroom, or by using inkjet and printing with incompatible materials.