Elaine Van Elslander – Graduation 2025

Elaine Van Elslander
VONDELING VAN VENUS

graphic design

Mentoren:
Erwin Wittevrongel
Régis Dragonetti

VONDELING VAN VENUS is an atypical graphic novel centred on chaos, confusion and delusion. Elaine Van Elslander’s work moves between image and language, between the intuitive and the intangible. There is no narrative, no beginning or end, just fragments, echoes and impressions that accumulate into a fragile reality.

The collages combine graphite drawings and drawings with lithography crayons, in which repetition and distortion play a key role. The image is layered, ragged, and always on the edge of recognisability. Monotypes add an element of coincidence.

The texts in the book are successive alliterations. As such, they are rhythmic, tripping up the language. They limit and repeat, as do the images. Words like wandering thoughts. Everything connects in a suffocating interplay that yet remains open, leaves room for interpretation.

VONDELING VAN VENUS is not a story, but a state. A sensory experience in which the viewer is allowed to get lost, just as the work itself does.

Elaine Van Elslander VONDELING VAN VENUS

Elaine Van Elslander
VONDELING VAN VENUS