E.vloe - Elena Vloeberghen

Involved in a conceptual approach towards textile design, in the form of manipulation, visual art, sustainability, scenographic objects and art objects, with a high tactility.

Since a young age, Elena Vloeberghen has been looking for different materials and spaces around, through observation and later through education. She studied Architecture at Sint- Lucas in Brussels and Product Design at MAD Faculty in Genk.

She graduated in 2019 with a Masters in Textile Design at KASK Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium), where she focused on using inner perceptions and sensitivities as a starting point to create, without losing her eye for her surroundings. Through discussions with peers, she absorbs different discourses and tries to position herself autonomously in relation to other opinions, in order to create her own reality. This challenges her to think outside of her comfort zone and leads to new insights about her work, bringing about a practice of looking for conflict.

Vloeberghen is a very analytical researcher, digging deep into every facet of the subject matter at hand, looking for conflict in different layers of materials, as well as conflicts of world views, always in relation to space and environment. However, in contrast to this, the idea of chance also plays an important part, where an accident can lead to interesting results. The interplay of these two ways of working eventually leads to an object or image.

Currently, Vloeberghen is expanding her practice by engaging in different projects. She has collaborated with different artists, such as Henri Jacobs and Stijn Van Dorpe, where she functioned in an advising or assisting role. She is also active in different performance-based collectives (Breath, Noon III) inspiring each other with individual and collective research, and helping each other reaching new heights These collaborations have enabled a new research - what does it mean to put textile in movement, through the influence of the human body and its movement, through the importance of stenographic forces?

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