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MONOVISIONS Awards 2024


Great Experience in front of me! I am a part of the jury in 8th edition of the Monovisions Awards 2024 – one of the world’s best International Black and White Photo Contest! Long live Black and White Photography! 📸🖤

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Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive


“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” – Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism.

The latest photography series for my in-development feature film Sick Bacchus is now online at Private Photo Review.

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Film, Film Festivals, Screenings

Patriarchal Sabbath showing at MIVA 2023


Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 (video art) Quito 2023 Vacations in the Subconscious 1924-2023 – 100 Years Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton Surrealist Vacation Resort Quito 25 / 26 August 2023 An inter/trans-continental collaboration between – The New Museum of Networked Art & MIVA Expanded Narratives Experimental Video Art Festival Quito/Ecuador @ Cinemateca Nacional Quito Special selection

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Torrance Art Museum: The Surrealist Camp


The Surrealist Summer Vacation Camp Vacations in the Subconscious – 100 years – The Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton curated by the New Museum of Networked Art Los Angeles/Cologne 22 July – 09 September 2023 – simultaneously @ Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles & Alphabet Art Centre Cologne 7 weeks – 14 screening programs

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Summer with Monika


Summer with Monika ( Monika K. Adler’s summer exhibitions) Posted on June 4, 2023 Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 (photography/video art) Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding.

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Auckland Festival of Photography 2023


Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding. Violence and abuse against women remains endemic. Sex, services, and supply; this is what the system requires

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Share, Tag or Dye Again.


Monika K. Adler: ‘Self portrait’ is a part of the collective cyanotype photography installation: Share, Tag or Dye Again by Allkimik Photographic Association. SHOWS: Spain: Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona; Romania: Camera, Cluj-Napoca; Lapsus, Timisoara; Borderline Art Space, IASI; 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest. First show: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗧𝗮𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝘆𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝘟 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮, 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗷-𝗡𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮  Opening 31 March, 18:00-20:00 Str. Albert Einstein nr.6,

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Nostalgia in The Eye of the Photography.


Monika K. Adler: Nostalgia – The Eye of the Photography – FRA – France, 25 February 2023 https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/monika-k-adler/ Monika K. Adler: Nostalgia – L’oeil de la photographie – ENG – FRANCE, 25 February 2023https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/monika-k-adler-mn/ Nostalgia The photography series ‘Nostalgia’ tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and

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‘Nostalgia’ in the ‘Postcards from the Edge’, NY


My photograph from the series  ‘Nostalgia’ is a part of the Benefit for Visual AIDS 2023 25th of Postcards from the Edge 5 – 8 January 2023 Ortuzar Projects, Tribeca New York City, NY, USA and online. ‘Postcards from the Edge–Visual AIDS’ annual benefit–returns for its 25th year from January 5-8 at @ortuzarprojects in Tribeca! Due to

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The Pictorial List | In Conversation with Monika K. Adler


The Pictorial List | In Conversation with Monika K. Adler: https://www.thepictorial-list.com/interview/monika-k-adler TPL: Talk us through the narrative of NOSTALGIA. When and how did this project first manifest for you? What was the inspiration? What journey are you taking us on? What have you learned from this project that has surprised you? MKA: Nostalgia tells the

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Exhibitions, Screenings

This November, you can see video art Nostalgia, 2022 by Monika K. Adler at the Southwark Park Galleries in London.


This November, you can see video art Nostalgia, 2022 by Monika K. Adler at the Southwark Park Galleries in London. 13 November – 3 December 2022   //   LAKE GALLERY Preview:  SAT 12 NOV // 1 – 4PM | CLOSING EVENT // SAT 3 DEC, 1 – 4PM Exhibition Open:  WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, 11AM – 4PM

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Nostalgia, Tagree Magazine, 23 September 2022


I am thrilled to share with you my photography work Nostalgia, 2022 published today (23 September 2022) at the Tagree Magazine – Online magazine for Photography and Art: https://tagree.de/nostalgia-by-monika-k-adler/ Thank you very much to Editor-in-chief: Michael Nguyen NOSTALGIA: The photography series ‘NOSTALGIA’ tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war.

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My work ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘The Truth’ are featured in the TimeSilence Photography Magazine.


TimeSilence Photography: New issue is ready! Guest Artist: Monika K. Adler , Monika K. Adler ARTicle: Sofia Dalamagka Cover: Σάκης Μουχταρίδης ( congrats! ) Contributors: Ola Manston , Eugenia Aravantinou , Fani Karanikola , Fuad Sarkar , Katerina Tsoukala , Σάκης Μουχταρίδης , Vasilis Kouvalis , George Papadopoulos , Giorgos Vasiliadis Many thanks to the

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8th Geoje International Art Festival with my video work Nostalgia.


Big Day! Opening of the 8th Geoje International Art Festival is coming soon. The exhibition takes place at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in Geoje, South Korea from 1 September to 25 October 2022. #해금강테마박물관 I am very happy that my video work ‘Nostalgia’ is a part of that amazing festival. I would like to express

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Exhibitions, Film, Film Festivals, Screenings

Fonlad 2022 – 17th  International Video Art and Performance Festival


Fonlad 2022 – 17th  International Video Art and Performance Festival, Coimbra, Portugal curated by  José Vieira with my new video work ‘NOSTALGIA’ 2022, UK, 7:30 VIDEOS: Wezi (Breathe)”, Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani, Togo/ Germany, 2022, 2:55 “[SELF]INSERTIONS: when the [noisy] silence became louder than skin”, António Olaio + José Cruzio, Portugal, 2021, 5:2’ “Territorial Poetics (II: Unfoldin)”, Bill Psarras, Greece, 2019, 25:42

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Monika K. Adler’s photography works depicting men, a part of the Lusted Men Collection 2020, will be shown at The Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.


My photography works depicting men, a part of the Lusted Men Collection 2020, will be shown at The Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Lusted Men: l’erotisme au masculin, La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris. France, 2 June 2022 Read more…

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Nostalgia, 2022


NOSTALGIA tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential. Cast alone amongst thousands; forced, overnight, to leave their home, their family, their animals, and the places they love; fractious, precarious, putting their lives in the hands

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This weekend my video work ‘Nostalgia’ is shown in: Peace Letters from Rockville to Ukraine.


This weekend my video work ‘Nostalgia, 2022’ is shown in: Peace Letters from Rockville to Ukraine. Solidarity screening program-Turmoil & Error – 7 & 8 May 2022 @ VisArts Center RockvillePeace Letters 6 selection curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne Shelley Jordon (USA) – Surge, 2022, 2:28Dee Hood (USA) – To Bridge Or Not To

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Auckland Festival of Photography: NOSTALGIA by Monika K. Adler


As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography – Online Programme view NOSTALGIA by Monika K. Adler, on now through to 12 June 2022 as part of the Disruption [raruraru] theme.  www.monikakadler.com/project/nostalgia-2022/ NOSTALGIA tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only

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Long live Poland! Slava Ukraini!


Today I am proud of Poles, as ONE of the few in the world they support Ukraine and our great Ukrainian brothers. Poland accepted and helped 575,100 Ukrainian refugees (3 March, 2022), thousands of Poles gave a temporary home to women and children and their pets! Long live Poland! Slava Ukraini! Those who write #stopwar

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Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS benefit.


You can purchase my photography work: Deranged in London at the annual Visual AIDS Benefit. ‘Postcards from the Edge’ exhibition, Visual AIDS, New York, United States January 8-14, 2022 Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy — because AIDS IS NOT OVER! Get ready! Postcards

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Monika K. Adler: What’s on January 2022


What’s on January 2022 Monika K. Adler’s photography works are shown in the following exhibitions: 12 January 2022 – 25 February 2022 ‘Postcards from Europe’, Shutter Hub, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom January 8-14 2022 A benefit for Visual AIDS: ‘Postcards from the Edge”, Visual AIDS, New York, United States Until 16 January 2022 Body

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Photography, Press

Monika K. Adler: Chinese PRESS


Monika K. Adler:新冠下的孤独之旅 “在我对面的公寓楼里,一名年轻女子杀死了自己的两个儿子后自杀了;之后的几天,楼下堆放着人们送来的一波波白玫瑰、气球和便签……这真是对疫情造成的心理阴影的标注。” Monika K. Adler 说,“在英国,每 90 分钟就有一个人自杀。”Monika K. Adler 是波兰人,现居伦敦,是一名以挑衅性的摄影与实验电影作品而闻名的摄…  Read more…

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Body Ideals – Oppression and Liberation, Museum Ovartaci, Aarhus, Denmark


Great to see my artwork: Transformation aka Misery of my Soul in the exhibition Body Ideals – Oppression and Liberation, Museum Ovartaci, Aarhus, Denmark 24 November 2021 – 16 January 2022.  OPENING 23 NOVEMBER 2021 17:00 – 19:00 FERNISERING – KROPSIDEALER, Undertrykkelse & Frigørelse Olof Palmes Allé 11, 8200 Aarhus, Danmark Museum Ovartaci markerer flytningen

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Involuntary Memory will be shown at Southwark Park Galleries in London: 37th Annual Open Exhibition


I feel excited that my video work ”Involuntary Memory” will be shown at Southwark Park Galleries in London. 37th Annual Open Exhibition Preview: SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER // 1PM–4PM 17 November –11 December 2021 // LAKE GALLERY Exhibition Open: WEDNESDAY // THURSDAY // FRIDAY // SATURDAY // SUNDAY // 11AM–4PM https://southwarkparkgalleries.org Involuntary Memory: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3826334/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_4

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Family FOTO – Serpentine Galleries.


I am very excited my FOTO ‘’Winter of the Century’’ is featured in the online exhibition: ”Family FOTO”, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom Family FOTO is an international family album inspired by James Barnor’s Serpentine exhibition James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/family-foto/winter-of-the-century-poland-monika-k-adler/

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”Postcards from Europe” exhibition.


I am very happy my photography work ‘’The last time I saw Warsaw’’ will be shown in the Shutter Hub exhibition: ‘’Postcards from Europe’’ at Cambridge University, United Kingdom: November 2021 – January 2022.   26 February 2020: the last time I saw Warsaw. As I left the city to return to London, I took this photograph

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Articles, Photography, Poetry, Press

Abracadabra: London’s Transcendent Reverse, Monika K. Adler, Photo Review


New Article: Abracadabra: London’s Transcendent Reverse, Monika K. Adler, Photo Review, 6 August 2021 These photographs are the first in new series which looks at what lies on the periphery, between the realm of our cognition and the ineffable. https://www.privatephotoreview.com/2021/08/abracadabra-londons-transcendent-reverse/

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Lusted Men Tour 2021


I am delighted that my works depicting Men are now on Tour! Lusted Men Tour 2021: Photography Exhibitions: L’image satellite – Festival Photographie Contemporaine, Nice France, Lusted Men @ Arles – You like to look at men*? Leboudoir2.0 during Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France, Babesday, Le 122 Tiers Lieu Culturel, Angers, France 4. La Nombreuse, Bruxelles, Belgium,

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Monika K. Adler – The Body and Soul


Eliot pisał, że najokrutniejszym miesącem jest kwiecień. ’Wywodzi z nieżywej ziemi łodygi bzu, miesza pamięć i pożądanie, podnieca gnuśne korzenie sypiąc ciepły deszcz.” Marzec bywa jego smutnym preludium. Piękna kobieta z sąsiedztwa popełniła rozszerzone samobójstwo, uśmiercając siebie i dwóch synów. Wyglądali na szczęśliwych, a odeszli w sposób możliwie najboleśniejszy dla ciała. Grupa dzieci udekorowała ich dom białymi

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”Death and the Maiden”, 2020 aka Eros conquers Thanatos.


”Death and the Maiden”, 2020 aka Eros conquers Thanatos. #holyweek2021 ”Gazing at Adler’s photography, from a psychoanalytic perspective, Wilhelm Reich comes to mind. And, notably, his view of sexual politics. His contentions about the political implications of the suppression of sexuality in, for example, patriarchal based monogamous marriage are brought to the fore by this

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Exhibitions, Photography

Photo Saint Germain 2021


My work will be exhibited as part of the Lusted Men exhibition at the PhotoSaintGermain Festival which takes place from January 7th to 21st 2021! Opening: Vernissage 7 January 2021 16h-20h The Lusted Men Project Space that will host our Lusted Men exhibition is located at 8 rue Perronnet 75007 Paris. The show is curated by

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Articles, Books, News, Photography

Rankin’s 2020 – the book


Rankin’s 2020 – the book Rankin’s 2020 – photography book accompanying the TV series. The publication includes my Work. Profits from the book will be donated to Mental Health UK. Waterstones Book Depository The book is listed as ‘unavailable’ on Amazon because we have not delivered books to their warehouse yet. We estimate delivery to

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Lagos Photo 2020: Home Museum


LagosPhoto 2020: Rapid Response Restitution HOME MUSEUM: https://homemuseum.net/grid/7332c26d-b402-4e1a-b371-f3ead5a4e1aa https://homemuseum.net I left home at 13, often changing addresses, cities and countries. My suitcase became smaller every year; however, I still have a few remaining childhood items until today, which I keep as totems. This is my story, the remains of my old identity, a sentimental journey

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SaintGermainPhoto 2020


My work will be exhibited as part of the Lusted Men exhibition at the PhotoSaintGermain Festival which takes place from November 6th to 21st 2020! Opening: Vernissage 5 novembre 2020 16h-20h The Lusted Men Project Space that will host our Lusted Men exhibition is located at 8 rue Perronnet 75007 Paris. http://www.photosaintgermain.com/ http://photography-now.com/exhibition/146967 My photo collection +

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LagosPhoto20: Home Museum


I’m immensely happy to be selected for LagosPhoto20 : Home Museum24 October – 19 December 2020′ ”LagosPhoto Festival is delighted to present the eleventh edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival. This year it follows the theme of “Rapid Response Restitution”, a concept developed by Azu Nwagbogu and Dr. Clémentine Deliss, with Guest Curator and Nigerian

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Rankin 2020 #SELF


Works from my series Dismembered, 2020, are featured in the current Sky Arts TV programme ‘Rankin‘s 2020’, Episode 2: #Self As a shortlisted entrant for Rankin’s 2020, my photographs will also be published in the photography book accompanying the series. Profits from the book will be donated to Mental Health UK. More later … Moje

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Eight years in London, the New Babylon.


Ostatnio nie mam czasu zagłębiać się w social media, ale! wstąpiwszy w dziewiąty rok emigracji w Londynie, postanowiłam odświerzyć nieco pamięć i napisać o pra-początkach owej ideei, która doprowadziła mnie w słuszne miejsce. ‘Słuszne miejsce’ – tak o miejscu, ktore pokocha ‘Cię na zabój’ – z pełną wzajemnością – i jak ‘Sezam’ otworzy przed Tobą

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Travel no End (2004-2020)


I’m fascinated with human existence – the moral choices we make, our mentality and psychology, and on the other hand, the extraordinary bestiality, brutality and low levels of awareness. Life has always fascinated me – it’s intensity, a liberation from the everyday reality frameworks in which people impose upon themselves slavery based standards. Breathing full

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Life is a series of constant changes…


Life is a series of constant changes; sometimes sudden and gut-wrenching. Higher necessity intervenes without notice or empathy. Acceptance brings quietude. I have no influence on the fate of the world, only on how I think and act. The current situation gives me an interval for reflection and transformation; rejection of false ideas and delusions.

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Monika K. Adler – Covid -19 Collection.


You can see my photographs documenting #covid19 era in the following collections: COVID-19 ARCHIVE, Public Source, United Kingdom – ongoing project,  featuring documentary photographers, journalist and writers from across the globe who are going to great lengths to record these events as they unfold. http://covid19.publicsource.xyz/# COVID PICTURES Collection, Portland, United States: https://covidpictures.org/archive-250- * Entropy and

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New Exhibition.


My photography work ”Chernobyl of Love” will be shown in online exhibition ”Eros&Thanatos” curated by Igor Zeiger, Erika Tal-Shir and Maria Rosenblatt. From 17:00 GMT on the 7th of May.Beam Collectivewww.beamcollective.net OPENING LIVE!?⠀⠀”We are going to open our exhibition at 20.00 Israel Time (GMT+3). At this time we will go live on our Instagram account,

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Postcards from Great Britain.


”Holland Park, 2019” – part of the Shutter Hub project: Postcards from Great Britain ( various exhibitions – TBA.) Archive: Cambridge University Library, UK, DECK Library, Singapore,  Lightbox Photobook Library, Taiwan, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK The work comes from the ongoing series ‘The Maldives of Consciousness’. Taken in Holland Park, London, in the summer

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Lusted Men Collection 2019/2020


My photographs: ”Aeon Rose” and ”Portraits of Young Man, 2010′ are now part of the Lusted Men collection./Une collection d’images érotiques d’hommes, Brussels, Belgium. https://lustedmen.info/en/ LUSTED MEN: How do you proceed to capture the erotic aura? Is this a work you are used to do? MONIKA K. ADLER: The characteristics of each person I capture

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‘Cinema Paradiso’ (2018)


My Self-Portrait ‘Cinema Paradiso’ (2018) is a part of exhibition: Bob Lens “Individual Situations” at HOK Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands. The exhibition runs from Friday, 17th of January 2020 till Saturday 22nd of February 2020. On 17 January 1963 the French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou announced that Art was born 1.000.000 years ago, by throwing

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Exhibitions 2019


2019 ”Cruthachadh – International Photography Exhibition – Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK ”In-Line” – Photography Exhibition – The Greenwich Gallery, Linear House, Greenwich, London, UK NewMediaFest 2020 – the retrospective of Agricola de Cologne. (Monika K. Adler – ‘Involuntary Memory’). It starts at Addis International Videoart Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ‘Gavin Turk – Portrait

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Monika K. Adler interviewed by Yitzi Weiner


Filmmaker Monika K Adler: “We can create a more valuable life if we work to expand our consciousness”, Yitzi Weiner,  Thrive Global, New York, July 7, 2019 Read here… Rising stars in popular culture: Filmmaker Monika K Adler: “We can create a more valuable life if we work to expand our consciousness”, Yitzi Weiner, Authority

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