South African artist Nico Krijno’s photography exists at the intersection of performance, painting, montage, and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, riddles, patterns, and colour. Krijno builds sculptures using discarded materials and rearranges them over and over, photographing them during this process. The images are then reprocessed and altered again into new forms through both collage and Photoshop, creating new narratives and meaning. Such explorations are representative of his experimentation with the perceived truths of objects, the medium of photography, and its broader history. Playful, carefully structured, and completely non-linear. Nico Krijno’s photography is at the intersection of performance, painting, montage, and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, puzzles, patterns, and colors. How To Leave Your Body Behind is at once playful, carefully structured, and completely non-linear. Nico Krijno builds sculptures from discarded materials, continues to rearrange them over and over again, photographing them in the process. These photographs are then reprocessed and altered again into new forms – using Photoshop, paint, and/or collage – creating new narratives and meanings. His explorations represent an experiment in the perceived truths of objects, the medium of photography, and its history. Reminiscent of traditional still life, Nico’s photographs are loaded with humorous visual information, challenging the boundaries of the still image with its ever-changing staging.
'How To Leave Your Body Behind' 2019
by Nico Krijno
