SJOERD KNIBBELER | IN ELEMENTS
Solo exhibition
March 10 – May 29 2022
Questions to the elements
There’s such a large part of reality that is invisible! Thanks to scientific knowledge, people are gradually finding out more about what moves deep inside the earth, how air flows and winds blow, how water moves around a ship or how clouds change shape. These may be very real and physical phenomena, but how can they be photographed? Or better still: what does it take to create such an image? The images are the record of the encounter between sunlight and Sjoerd Knibbeler’s working method, created in a wooden cabinet in which sunlight is brought into the room through mirrors and lenses.
The In Elements series consists of photographs made on the mud flats near the German island of Föhr. Only the elements prevail here: the sky with sunlight and clouds, rain, and wind; the sea and the scurrying life in the dried-up seabed, with an occasional glimpse of the coast. This small set of variable ingredients produces an astonishing visual richness.
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