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.
WE MONSTERS
CURA. 15 YEARS ISSUE
Spring-Summer 2024
Cover 1/3. Marianna Simnett @mariannasimnett
Photography: Lotte Thor @lotte.thor
Assist: Juliana Malinouski @julianamalinouski
Retouch: Gabriella Kovari @gabriellakovari_retouch
Hair and Make-up: Victoria Plekhanova @diekunst
Prosthetics: Una Ryu @no_filter_no_no
Styling: Charlotte Buchal @ohcharlz
Production Assistant: Kristin Jakubek @___jakubek
Commissioned by CURA.
Editors in Chief
Ilaria Marotta @ilamarotta
Andrea Baccin #andreabaccin
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. In a world that hides monstrosity behind “otherness,” monsters thus reveal a dynamic, varied, multifaced, transformative universe.
Art direction: Giovanni Murolo @countersubject.biz
WE MONSTERS LOGO: Dan Solbach @dansolbachstudio
CURA. 15 YEARS ISSUE
Spring-Summer 2024
Cover 1/3. Marianna Simnett @mariannasimnett
Photography: Lotte Thor @lotte.thor
Assist: Juliana Malinouski @julianamalinouski
Retouch: Gabriella Kovari @gabriellakovari_retouch
Hair and Make-up: Victoria Plekhanova @diekunst
Prosthetics: Una Ryu @no_filter_no_no
Styling: Charlotte Buchal @ohcharlz
Production Assistant: Kristin Jakubek @___jakubek
Commissioned by CURA.
Editors in Chief
Ilaria Marotta @ilamarotta
Andrea Baccin #andreabaccin
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. In a world that hides monstrosity behind “otherness,” monsters thus reveal a dynamic, varied, multifaced, transformative universe.
Art direction: Giovanni Murolo @countersubject.biz
WE MONSTERS LOGO: Dan Solbach @dansolbachstudio
