Travel no End, 2004 – Present Travel no End, 2004 – Present There’s something profound about travelling. Not tourism. Travelling. When you leave your home, country, current life, and go towards the unknown. I always liked the quote from the Sheltering Sky movie: ‘’A tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment they
Anxiety & Neurosis, 2012 – 18 Anxiety & Neurosis, 2012 – 18 Gazing at this artist’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
Nokturn, 2003 Nightly existence marked by memories, reflections, dreams and phantoms of varying intensity. Cold, lonely times in the company of hidden instincts and fears. Who is the figure in the darkness of night? What is a conscious and what is a waking dream? Existence and nothingness, wisdom and illusion, truth wreathed in a shadow
Sacred Flesh, 2003 Cycle Sacred Flesh – some scares, some people react on it even with anxiety, but for others it is like a brilliant full moon illuminating a dark endless sky. I have not seen anyone react indifferently. After thousands of years of mindless killing, murder, and other barbaric acts of violence and insensitive
Mademoiselle Guillotine, 2013 At first glance, Monika K. Adler’s work recalls that of fellow eastern European photographer Jan Saudek. Solitary subjects, nostalgic sepia-tones, a focus on feminine beauty? in cell-like settings. But where Saudek’s caged birds exist in a timeless isolation, the outside world may more rudely intrude in Ms Adler’s tableaux vivants. At least
Tomorrow never dies, 2009
Alice doesn’t live here anymore, 2003
