Entendue is born of a shared gesture: as a child, the artist drew the elephants of Rotterdam’s Blijdorp Zoo with her father.
This gaze, passed on in childhood, later becomes an anchor when her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, gradually allowing the drawings to drift toward abstraction.
The elephants sometimes seem to overflow the frame, like metaphors for a fragile memory that cannot be fully grasped. Interwoven with the photographs are drawings made over time by the artist and her father, sketching an abstract tenderness composed of ink stains and charcoal lines. The book unfolds as a meditation on memory, attentive to the silent bonds that unite humans and animals, and to the sensitivity they make possible.
