About The Artist

Born in 1991. Marcus Viljoen Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Marcus Viljoen is a conceptualist using various photographic processes and techniques bringing across ideas of memory held and lost with societies perception. He has always been enamored of photography. By using photography in a sculpture and textured element, Marcus finds new ways of using the medium. The many different Cultural and social trends that surrounds him, inspires his photographic aim. Most of his works are combinations of mixed media with photography. He explores underlying notions of time and the paradoxical relationship between society and present states of being. Through the process of altering photographs, he emphasizes our understanding of the abstract terms society and photography through metaphor.