Nico Krijno / Collages 2020-2022 painting Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020)

Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020) is a photographer’s photographer

yet not exclusively

gives her the opportunity to feel their materiality and texture directly through her eyes

Where is my identity now

defending circus as a field in which experimental thinking is already happening and can continue to happen

Nico Krijno / Collages 2020-2022 painting Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020)On paper, a book may seem a peculiar object to accommodate Nico Krijnos work. By virtue of its form, a book is finite, a neat vessel that lends itself to those narratives with a beginning and end. Krijnos work, however, is not finite; it has no resolution or discernible moments that can be easily pointed at, bound and labelled. And neither does it ebb or flow in tidy rhythms but accumulates, constantly and relentlessly. If anything, Krijnos work feels