Cura #42 - We Monsters

Cura #42 - We Monsters

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.

About Cura:

CURA. is a leading platform for critic, editorial and curatorial practice, a performing hub aimed at the investigation of the contemporary art field, the critical debate, the digital culture, and the “new now.” Through key collaborations, CURA. leads the production of a biannual international magazine, alongside the artistic direction of exhibitions, biennials, festivals, and site-specific projects, including the production of solo shows commissioned to international artists and held in the art district of Basement Roma in Rome and within its long-term nomadic exhibition program kura. in Milano.

CURA. is also engaged in editorial activity with books production, multimedia content, and multidisciplinary collaborations. CURA. was the artistic director of the Belgrade Biennale 2021, and it runs the independent projects of the Clubbing fanzine and the Display Collection, in collaboration with designers, artists, and architects.