“When they graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam a while ago, he built a paper house with giant inward-facing drawings for walls. The idea for this year’s graduation work, Venom (2022), built upon on that structure, with monumental drawings hung from the wall that divided the diez gallery storage space—where montero showed their work— from its exhibition space—where the rest of the Fine Arts graduates exhibited their works. montero decided to play out her theatrics behind the scenes, staging poison-green frogs, rubber duckies, rocks, and lily pads in a sea of felt tip flames.” Excerpt from an essay on boyan montero by Dagmar Bosma