CONTEXT
Why do the grotesque and the monstrous provoke rejection while at the same time creating spaces for cathartic identification?
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
Turn an extensive body of theoretical research into a visceral, accessible visual experience, open to future collaborations.
CONTEXT
Why do the grotesque and the monstrous provoke rejection while at the same time creating spaces for cathartic identification?
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
Turn an extensive body of theoretical research into a visceral, accessible visual experience, open to future collaborations.
Grotesqueer
Grotesqueer
PROJECT
Research, writing, design and art direction for an independent zine exploring the intersection between horror and the wider world of queerness.
Art Direction
Experimental
Social
CONTEXT
Why do the grotesque and the monstrous provoke rejection while at the same time creating spaces for cathartic identification?
OBJECTIVES
Explore the relationship between horror, otherness and queer reappropriation through an experimental editorial format.
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
CONCEPT
Grotesqueer explores the relationship between horror and dissidence:
How the grotesque, the uncomfortable and the monstrous can shift from being mechanisms of rejection to becoming spaces of identification, catharsis and reappropriation.
CONCEPT
Grotesqueer explores the relationship between horror and dissidence:
How the grotesque, the uncomfortable and the monstrous can shift from being mechanisms of rejection to becoming spaces of identification, catharsis and reappropriation.
METHODOLOGY
Research
Brainstorming & Sketches
Illustration & Assembly
Layout
Printing & Binding
METHODOLOGY
Research
Brainstorming & Sketches
Illustration & Assembly
Layout
Printing & Binding
VISUAL SYSTEM
The imagery and language adapt and sync with the progressive structure of the content and the research, from the most academic, normative analysis to the political, collective transformation of the most monstrously queer.
VISUAL SYSTEM
The imagery and language adapt and sync with the progressive structure of the content and the research, from the most academic, normative analysis to the political, collective transformation of the most monstrously queer.
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