Overview participating exhibitions
Terra Cognita - Urban Jungle
2012
Terra Cognita - Urban Jungle
Rob Wetzer & Sjoerd Knibbeler
Typology (2009-present)
Although we continue to cherish a desire for wild nature, man has become used to the complete adaptation of the natural environment to his wishes. Bonsai trees are on the one hand an extreme form of control that is exercised over nature, but behind the growing of bonsai lies a yearning for knowledge of and contact with nature. In that sense they are a metaphor for our search for a different relation with the natural environment.
Biography
Sjoerd Knibbeler (Netherlands, 1981) and Rob Wetzer (Netherlands, 1981) both studied photography at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht and the Royal Academy for the Fine Arts in The Hague. Both have received awards at the Naarden Photo Festival; Wetzer in 2010 and Knibbeler in 2011.