An Italian illustrator with a degree in Graphic Design and Film Studies.
Through her illustrations, characterised by a dreamlike and delicate style, she explores life, love and other everyday existential crises.
With a large online following, she runs an Instagram page (@giuliajrosa) with over 600,000 followers, with whom she maintains a constant dialogue, drawing on their suggestions and personal stories to create her illustrations.
Her work has been published in national and international magazines, and she collaborates on illustrated books and book covers for Einaudi, Hop! Edizioni, Giunti, Rizzoli, DeAgostini and Mondadori.
EMOTIONAL ANATOMY
“My work revolves around three central themes: relationships, anxiety and – above all – the body.
A body that is not merely depicted, but is chosen as a symbol of the various emotional states that inhabit it: at times ethereal and romantic, at others dissected and shattered.
When I cannot control my mind, I can try to draw it, pouring my entire emotional spectrum into dreamlike, pastel-hued illustrations.
A blank sheet of paper, after all, is nothing more than a vast psychotherapeutic mirror in which to rediscover others and oneself, with all one’s anxieties, discomforts and, let’s face it, joys too.
I was drawn to Eastern art after a long journey through Asia, inspired by the delicacy of the lines that clashed with the rawness and monstrosity of the tales.
I find the world of the Yōkai so similar to our own, in some ways, where universal hopes and fears shift and take shape – once again – in bodies.
They too, for better or worse, speak of us… in the end.”
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