{"id":365,"date":"2024-04-29T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T06:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-04-29T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T06:38:14","slug":"mariana-neves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/master-en\/ma-vc\/mariana-neves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariana Neves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What lurks in the margins of everyday life? What of ourselves do we exile beyond the borders of whom we\u2019ve been conditioned to be?<br \/>\nIn waking life, in dreams. As Rita attends the last year of Catholic school in Leiria, Portugal, a new girl joins the class, and Rita is plagued by visions of a dragon following her relentlessly. <em>The Monsters in My Closet<\/em> is a graphic novel about confronting one\u2019s inner demons against the backdrop of a wider belief system. It depicts a journey of acceptance and the realisation of one\u2019s queerness while living in a conservative, Catholic city and wrestling with a lack of references, teenage insecurities, internalised homophobia, compulsive heterosexuality, and a religious upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lurks in the margins of everyday life? What of ourselves do we exile beyond the borders of whom we\u2019ve been conditioned to be? In waking life, in dreams. As Rita attends the last year of Catholic school in Leiria, Portugal, a new girl joins the class, and Rita is plagued by visions of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/master-en\/ma-vc\/mariana-neves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mariana Neves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-vc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konstfack2024.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}