Fish Factory

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.

Usually, drawing and painting, she develops, here in Stödvarfjördur, a performative video work with Margaux Bula. It’s a narrative of a lost being who is trying and trying again, and again.

During this Fish Factory residency, she was also able to work on some clumsy charcoal drawings and began writing a short screenplay for a graphic novel about two characters who are lost in the fog, who don’t know why they’re here and who mistake tourists for journalists.

Charcoal drawings, Photo by Misha Martin

“This residency was really a great moment to pursue my work and meet other artists, the landscape and the peoples really touched me. I was enchanted by the diversity of rocks and shapes, as well as the mosses. There were also many birds and flowers who I was happy to meet properly. I go back home with a certain amount of documentation and ideas. ”