Sonya Trolliet is an artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She works on several projects in illustration and graphic novels. She came here to feed her interests with rocks and micro-organisms.
“I’m interested in awkwardness, in what fails or malfunctions, in failure, in the feeling of otherness in the world or in the body. Social inequalities, stones and micro-organisms are all part of my research.
I also like to work with characters I invent who behave in ways that are inappropriate or disturbing. They allow me to evoke the construction of relationships of domination between living beings and psychological conditioning. Violence, fear, notions of danger and confinement are never far away.
During my stay in Skagaströnd at NES, I’m producing some pictures of the graphic novel called Vivant.es, a post apocalyptical story about alterity. And I’m writing The Applebaum sisters, a story about resilience.
I also developed a day to day drawing diary about the thoughts I had during my walks around Skagaströnd.
Thank you to Vicki who makes that possible, it’s a really nice residency with lovely people.”
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