Becomings: Protographs for Sick Bacchus Monika K. Adler and Aeon Rose This protographic imagery is the brittle, semi-transparent skin sloughed from conventionally captured photography; a holograph of a moment in time combined with a fiction. We wandered through the White stucco mansion houses of South Kensington for hours to form the structure of this
We walk through collapsed burial-mounds, along worn tarmac, salt-marshes, quagmires of mud, black crows impale insects; congregating, conversing, across the floodplain; the curves of the river reconfigured over time by many indentured hands. Chalk-stone-white. The land and its inhabitants becoming only subjects and resources for consumption by each successive ruling entity. Seven Sisters, the English
The availability and cheapness of travel have diminished its meaning. Crowds of people mindlessly move from one place to another, thinking only of what they will eat, where to stay overnight, and what photos they’ll post on social media. Does the automated, parasocial competitiveness of travel take away its depth? That spirit of transformation, knowledge,
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
In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists. Around them, despite a catastrophic collapse of society, the structures of embedded establishment persist; white stone edifices impervious to the re-ordering of reality. In our present, the ethical framework of the
‘The Pilgrimage: A Psychogeography of Loss.’ Published by Private Photo Review, France, 27 January 2024. Read more…. The Pilgrimage – a farewell journey to friend’s eternity.
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
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
The Truth, 2020-2021 London’s Diary on Covid-19 pandemic. Read more… The Truth; Quarantine in London: Living together but apart by Monika K. Adler Read more…
