About Eli
Hamburg-based visual artist and illustrator working under the name El’Art.
Eli Yazdani is a visual artist and illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany. Her surreal compositions bring together human figures, animals, plants, architecture, and everyday objects to create richly inhabited inner worlds.
Her practice moves across drawing, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, monoprint, and mixed illustrative techniques on paper and cardboard.
Artistic Practice
Eli’s images often begin with an emotion, memory, or internal experience. Through unexpected combinations of bodies, creatures, objects, and imagined spaces, these private states develop into visual narratives that balance tenderness, dark humor, and unease.
Her works invite viewers to move between recognition and uncertainty, discovering stories that remain open rather than fully explained.