Tjibbe Hooghiemstra

Tjibbe Hooghiemstra’s (1957, the Netherlands) artistic practice is somehow reminiscent of the estate of a 19th century naturalist, had the world been held within his own mind, and each document found its origin therein. In Hooghiemstra’s drawings, paintings, collages and photographs, nature thrives in a place just outside of the purely subjective. We feel there is something of a history there, a quality that causes us to suspect the work has previously existed elsewhere, as something other than art, divulging unknown things to unknown people, like a fragment of some scattered archive.