Tim Van Laere Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show by Belgian artist Eline Vansteenkiste (°1991, Ghent).
Vansteenkiste’s work exists at the crossroads of medieval world-building, cartographic imagination, fantastical storytelling, and cinematic landscape composition. Drawing from the intricate and surreal traditions of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, she crafts densely populated, chaotic yet controlled scenes that reflect the perpetualstruggle between order and disorder. Like Bosch’s vivid moral allegories, her paintings teem with grotesque creatures and bright landscapes, serving as metaphors for the tensions within the human psyche—where forces of life and death, creation and destruction, continuously intersect. With her small scale oil paintings on wooden panel, Vansteenkiste captivates a world of fantastical landscapes. They are brightly colored, structured, surreal and exude a certain serenity. These landscapes are occupied by women who roam the world, battling for survival, power and victory. It’s about our inner instincts, the way we claim our position in the world, our fears and our battles.
