How To Leave Your Body Behind

Nico Krijno’s photography is at the intersection of performance, painting, montage and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, riddles, patterns and color. How To Leave Your Body Behind is both playful, carefully structured and completely non-linear. Nico Krijno builds sculptures out of discarded materials, continues to re-arrange them over and over, photographing them during this process. These photographs then are re-processed and altered again into new forms – using photoshop, paint and/or collage – creating new narratives and meaning. His explorations represent an experiment into the perceived truths of objects, the medium of photography and its history. Reminiscent of traditional still lifes, Nico’s photographs are loaded with humorous visual information, challenging the boundaries of the still image with his ever-changing mise-en-scène.