Projects

With the new millennium, gender-based violence (GBV) has entered Italian mainstream discourse. Notwithstanding the visibility achieved, activists have denounced the simplification of feminist stances against GBV promoted by mainstream media. These have been accused of re-objectifying the victims, justifying perpetrators and confirming stereotypes. As a result of a growing awareness of the risks connected to the popularisation of the GBV ...

From my practice as graphic designer I have observed a change in the discipline. Recently, designers have become more and more involved in the editorial aspects of design. Designers have become the initiators of publishing projects and exhibition concepts. One could speak of the emancipation of the graphic designer.

In my design practice, I increasingly get assignments in which a storyline still has to be found and thus ...

In his PhD project “Lost in Hotel Penumbra. A Playful Study on the (Dis)appearance of the Character in (Post)comics”, Gabri Molist researches the role, function and presence of the character in comics through a fiction about the Hotel Penumbra, a place where people come to stay who feel ’something is missing’ in their life. Gabri breaks down the language of comics into pieces, understanding comics ‘as a construction’ with the character ...

This doctoral research explores the representation of childhood memories of war through a practice-based approach, combining the creation of a graphic novel with a critical written exegesis. Set against the socio-political backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001), the study examines the complexities of memory representation, particularly in relation to conflict and childhood. The research focuses on three main areas: memory ...

This proposal outlines two key initiatives aimed at addressing the prevalent issue of loneliness among newly-arrived adolescent migrants in Flanders, Belgium, leveraging insights from the ongoing Red Nose project. Firstly, a graphic narrative will be developed to depict the experiences of loneliness among newly-arrived adolescent migrants based on in-depth interviews. Through visual storytelling, this initiative seeks to raise awareness, ...

This thesis deals with the notion of “clear line”, a term coined in 1977 by the essayist and comics author Joost Swarte to describe Hergé’s style, but also that of some artists who can be considered his precursors, and of the creators who followed or parodied his work. It refers both to purely graphic and to intermedial narrative solutions, which work together to produce storytelling strategies that presuppose a deceptively ...

Never alone again: searching for a visual/language to give voice to early motherhood examines how a polyphonic method of working is able to connect the artistic practice and reflection. Mining a myriad of external testimonies, a graphic novel was built around various aspects of motherhood and relationships that change after having a child. The investigation set out from an autobiographical impulse, ...

A visual investigation into the (self)censorship of a contemporary cartoonist. This will be explored through the creation of a graphic novel, incorporating a fictional autobiographical narration, linked to Magritte's surrealism and fake news. Magritte talked about the deception of the images. But today we seem to adapt the reality of texts and images to what we want to believe:  we manipulate until ...

This research project examines the specific case of morgue files: picture collections composed of photographs, clippings and visual printed ephemera often organized and stored in cabinets, and used as reference aid for drawing comics and cartoons. Ubiquitous in publishers offices and artist studios during most of the twentieth century, morgues have been a central aspect of cartoonists’ creative process for decades ...