Where Have The Birds Gone? Elia Vanderheyden

Opening of the first Solo-Exhibition of Elia Vanderheyden!

Searching for the brittle balance between escape and unease, Elia Vanderheyden (b. 2000) creates landscapes that are not quite too unsettling to preclude an invitation to wander aimlessly. An abstraction prone to glitching immerses us in a world where an absent horizon has swallowed all reference to time or place. Through a process that is as spontaneous as it is deliberate – and where technique and chance go hand in hand – the laser-cut prints, paintings, and digital installations create atmospheres that both entice and repel. They are blurred discoveries of a world never trodden by humans – sites forever inaccessible, or glimpsed only in a distant future beyond our existence. A world where Vanderheyden’s fascination with the showdown between the ominous and the sublime takes centre stage. - Yasmin Van ‘tveld

Where Have the Birds Gone? is Elia Vanderheyden’s solo debut at KUBE Gallery in Genk. Here, the absence of birds becomes a metaphor for nature slipping away, yet within its uncanny silence there arises room for imagination. With this exhibition, Vanderheyden presents not only his woodcuts and works on paper, but also – for the first time – paintings and installations that draw the viewer even further into a world where the sublime and the elusive meet.

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