Through a wide series of monstrous figures, beast-like characters, aberrations, masks and figures, human and animal hybrids, nightmares, and chimeras, the new issue of CURA. investigates artists’ interest in weird life forms produced by the imagination, and the dismantling of a fictive idea of normality and its divisive categorizations.
Who is a monster? We are all monsters as we tend to project our most unconscious fears and anxieties into the others, conditioning our gaze and deflecting our judgment. Thus, we see in the others the monster that lurks within us.