At thirteen, i had already outgrown my hometown. not physically — spiritually. i no longer fit the narrative written for me. I was too observant, too intense, too unwilling to dissolve into the collective. and so I became a target.
‘Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve come to where the pelicans offer their blood; to gather with banners and tapestries, on carpets of flowers; a small girl stares, as each scene’s recorded, inscribed on the cluster of devices of those crowded around’. Corpus Christi: Pelican’s Blood, Private
Pelican’s blood, 2024 We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers. She checks her smartphone screen as she walks ahead, her heavy costume: living embroidery, alive with roses. Next to her, a young man in rounded glasses, the contemporary imagination of a 19th
The Pilgrimage: A Psychogeography of Loss by Monika K. Adler, Private Photo Review, France, 27 January 2024: Read more here …
#Photo_Exhibition Photography exhibition ‘Patriarchal Sabbath’ by Monika K. Adler is a part of an online programme of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2023 in New Zealand. Read here….
Monika K. Adler, Road Trip: Freedom, Nostalgia, Adventure, Private Photo Review, France, 11.03. 2022 https://www.privatephotoreview.com/2022/03/road-trip-freedom-nostalgia-adventure/
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
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,
My photographs from the series The Truth: Bread Ritual, 2020 are shown in the international photography exhibition BROT/BREAD at the gallery ART FACORY FLOX in Kirschau Germany until 22 August 2021. Curated by Holger Wendland.
I am very excited that my biography and the body of work has been published on Artpil: modern + contemporary profiles of the arts. https://artpil.com/monika-k-adler/
