Description
White Noise.
My drawings are made dot by dot, entirely by hand.
Each piece takes weeks, sometimes months to complete.
I use photographic references, and there is something both strange and beautiful in the encounter between an instant technique and a slow, laborious process that seems endless.
It becomes a telescopic experience of time, reminding me of mandalas made of millions of grains of sand.
Each drop of ink is a “now.”
How many “nows” does it take to make a drawing?
How can one capture them? Where do they begin — and where do they end?
The photos I choose as models are not particularly significant — just a gesture, an intuition, a fleeting choice.
But for me, the choice matters deeply: I will live with that image every day for months.
Is it the right one? How to decide?
Then everything becomes equally important.
What is truly worth dedicating that much time to?
Is a square centimeter of dust on a comet any less meaningful than a clearing in a forest?
Dot by dot, the image takes shape on the surface of the paper.
Up close, it’s only a scatter of specks, like the static snow of an old television — that endless “sssshhh.”
Then, at the right distance, the world appears — figures, landscapes, trees…
It looks just like life itself.
Biography
Emilia Tillberg studied Art History and began her artistic practice in Sweden.
She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Étienne (France), in the Graphic Design Department.
She has lived in Belgium since 2010, working mainly as a scenographer, graphic designer, and performer.
Emilia founded the UBIK collective, starting from a theater project for which she created a graphic novel parallel to the stage performance.
Within the group, she contributes to the writing, direction, and visual creation of theater pieces and installations.
More recently, she presented FAS 3, a movement-based performance in collaboration with Vanja Godée, Erik Heestermans, Anja Tillberg (SE), and Sarah Bleasdale.
Since 2015, she has been in residence at L’L, where she continues, with Anja Tillberg and Philippe Buraud, a long-term research project titled The Twilight Zone — exploring narrative structures and theatrical writing through space, gesture, and time.
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