These posters narrate in a visual form a part of my dissertation entitlted “Burning Images: A History of Effigy Protests”, which investigates a very visual and theatrical form of protest: the making, parading, hanging and burning of effigies. “Burning Images: Aesthetic of Defamation” maps how different modes of the grotesque—deformation, dehumanisation, demonisation, and the formless—function to perform the exclusion of the depicted from the category of being human.
