WATCH: This artist gives discarded items a second life - find out how

Francois Knoetze is a sculptor, performance artist and film maker who creates life-size sculptures made out of rubbish.

Knoetze explains the genesis of his art work. He says his grandfather would bring home scraps and call them treasures. In 2012 Knoetze featured as one of Art South Africa magazine’s ‘Bright Young Things’ and was recently selected as one of Mail & Guardian’s ‘Top 200 Young South Africans’ of 2015.

Knoetze’s work incorporates video, performance and sculpture, as he retraces the life cycles of discarded objects and explores junctures between material and social histories. In his Mongo* sculptural suits, the synthetic is welded to the human – bringing focus to the objectification of persons, through the personification of objects.

Watch as Knoetze takes us through his latest work and artistic aesthetic.