Joseph Kai

“Sissies” is a comic book that tells the story Mr. K, a curator who lives in Beirut. The story explores the theme of “anxiety” and, in particular, how gender and art generate this sensation in him. Mr K. lives between the art he sees daily, which transports him to utopian planes where he experiences different truths and aesthetics, and the reality of the city where he lives. The project uses storytelling as a means to study the themes of shame, guilt and judgment that shape “the anxious individual“ and, simultaneously, it explores the potentials for the visual representation of these themes.