Bijijoo brought viral monsters to Saatchi Yates for inaugural solo show
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Bijijoo brought viral monsters to Saatchi Yates for inaugural solo show
Installation view, Bijijoo. Opened March 16th and will continue through May 28th, 2023.



LONDON.- This March, Saatchi Yates opened the inaugural solo exhibition of American TikTok sensation Michael Todd Horne - known as Bijijoo (b. 1975), with a select number of new works delving into his personal world of monsters and characters that garnered him a cult following since joining the platform in March 2021.

A zoo-like array of large-scale paintings sees amorphous, colour-drenched monsters emerge at Saatchi Yates, some with an unsettling glee reminiscent of the wonder and dread felt towards the unknown in childhood. Off-kilter in their gait and proportions, they lurch towards the boundaries of the canvas, and tap into nostalgia.

Bijijoo’s paintings result from process-driven experimentation with painting media and automatic drawing, using traditional and digital techniques. He builds miXed media layers to amplify interplays of light, colour, and texture. Images are conjured from chaos, in a process akin to divination. The forms that take shape trend toward human and animal: grotesque exaggerations of life, monstrous cartoons, vanitas. Narratives emerge through these interactions, reflecting struggle, celebration, and introspection. The results depict experiences, interactions, and movements frozen in a personal space and time.

In his practice, Bijijoo makes an innovative contribution to the artistic fields of figuration, abstraction and digital, weaving his lifelong passion for painting and drawing with his technical studies in mathematics, physics, computer science, and chemistry, which culminated in a Ph.D in biophysics in 2008. Though, at the heart of his work is the inspiration he draws from his daughter’s imagination and love of monsters.

Through meticulously framed, step-by-step shots of his painting processes, Bijijo’s TikTok videos convey the physicality of his work, accompanied with ASMR-inducing sound editing, and self-composed electronic music.

“I get comments from [young people] that their art teacher - some dude somewhere - thinks that good art has to be realistic. Or they talk about other limitations,” says Bijijoo. “But then someone sees these videos where I’m just throwing miXed media around, and it inspires them to break out of that mould. That’s something I love. I definitely want to live in a world where people are more creative.”

Bijijoo (given name: Michael Todd Horne) was born in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in 1975 and currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter. Bijijoo has been painting and drawing since childhood. He has experimented with figurative, abstract and conceptual work in a variety of media, including writing, music and video. Bijijoo diverged from art practice to pursue technical studies in mathematics, physics, computer science and chemistry, culminating in a Ph.D. in biophysics in 2008. Bijijoo’s work draws on his technical background in maths, science and computer programming, as well as his daughter’s imagination and love of monsters.

Bijijoo’s exhibition at Saatchi Yates opened on Thursday 16th March and will be available to view until 28th May 2023.










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