Nico Krijno (ZA)

GONDWANA BATHOLITH (1) Composition with both geological and photographic time

Image: Nico Krijno, [GONDWANA BATHOLITH (1) Composition with both geological and photographic time] (detail), 2020.

Image: Nico Krijno, GONDWANA BATHOLITH (1) Composition with both geological and photographic time (detail), 2020.

Region

Central

Accessibility

Wheelchair access

A meditation on the fragility of our environment, and the transience of the marks we leave behind, Nico Krijno’s GONDWANA BATHOLITH (1) Composition with both geological and photographic time brings us into a space where nature and humanity communicate together. This is a place where late-Precambrian metamorphic sandstone becomes the site of spiritual exercise, as significant and vulnerable as any sentient life.

Informed by ancient rock paintings and engravings believed to bring fortune to the hunt, Krijno’s work speaks of the ways human presence transforms a landscape—to beautiful or devastating effect.

Commissioned by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021

On display from 18 February 2021

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Artists

Founding Partners
  • Bowness Family Foundation
  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Major Government Partners
  • City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program
  • Creative Victoria
Major Partners
  • Maddocks

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