Artists

Emilia Estrada

Emilia Estrada (Córdoba, 1989) is an artist living and working in Rio de Janeiro. Engaging with notions of displacement and occupation, her practice confronts the ways in which power is inscribed in archives and in representations of space. Working primarily with drawing, installation, and archival research, Estrada investigates terrestrial and celestial cartographies as instruments of power that sustain and legitimize processes of exploitation and territorial appropriation. By articulating poetic, iconographic, and archival elements, the artist constructs speculative mappings that make visible the arbitrariness of historiography and the symbolic systems that shape territorial imaginaries. In her work, cartography is not reinvented but unmasked as a fiction shaped by vested interests, operating in the blurred terrain between documentation and imagination.

Emilia Estrada

Artists in Residency: 2nd Cohort of 2026

From February 16th to March 9th 2026, Tilal AiR welcomes nine artists from diverse backgrounds, brought together for its February cohort. Selected through the open call launched in November 2025, their projects were reviewed by an international jury composed of Abdramane Kamate, Divya Bhatia, and Rasha Salah. 

Over three weeks, the residency becomes a living laboratory. The artists develop their research in a setting conducive to experimentation and dialogue, alternating between individual work periods, collective gatherings, and exchanges with the local context. This rhythm fosters the deepening of personal approaches while opening spaces for shared reflection. 

Through the diversity of practices — visual arts, writing, performance, and transdisciplinary research — this new cohort embodies the spirit of Tilal AiR: to create rigorous yet caring working conditions where situated narratives, contemporary imaginaries, and relationships with the living intersect and mutually enrich one another. 

Through this program, Tilal AiR reaffirms its commitment to emerging artistic processes and to the international circulation of knowledge, by supporting modes of transmission, collaboration, and local anchoring that extend beyond the timeframe of the residency. 

Artists in Residency: 2nd Cohort of 2026