What of ourselves do we exile beyond the borders of whom we’ve been conditioned to be?
In waking life, in dreams.
As Leonor attends the last year of Catholic school in Leiria, Portugal, a new girl joins the class, and Leonor is plagued by visions of a dragon following her relentlessly.
MFA in VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Project + Thesis + Exhibition
EXHIBITION
6,5m x 5m MURAL
Limited edition risoprinted TEASER BOOK
Promotional printed material
Konstfack’s DEGREE EXHIBITION 2024
Stockholm, SE
THE MONSTER IN MY CLOSET is a graphic novel about confronting one’s inner demons against the backdrop of a wider belief system. It depicts a journey of acceptance and realization of one’s queerness while living in a conservative, Catholic city; wrestling with lack of references, teenage insecurities, internalized homophobia, compulsive heterosexuality, and religious upbringing.
The comics draw inspiration from medieval illuminations and marginalia, subverting Christian aesthetics by exploring the tension between the Word of God and the margins, insiders and outsiders, heteronormativity and queerness, and the process of othering.
At the spring exhibition, a chapter of the story was presented as a teaser book: in a hardbound, embossed, gilded exhibition copy, alongside a softcover limited edition.
Interested in publishing this story? Let’s get in touch!
⮏ The Mural ⮎
6.5 meters by 5 meters
EXHIBITED AT
Konstfack’s DEGREE EXHIBITION 2024
15 — 24 MAY 2024
VITA HAVET, KONSTFACK
Stockholm, SE
Special thanks to Jonna Lammers from VAAF for lending a hand in painting the muraL
Making the Teaser Book ⮎
EXHIBITION COPY
Leatherbound, handsewn, gilded & embossed using 3D printed plates on a letterpress machine.
LIMITED EDITION TEASER
Softcover, handsewn. 40 copies.
BOOK INTERIOR (both versions)
Printed using RISO machine, 4 colors
Red, Blue, Yellow & Metallic Gold
⮏ process snapshots
