Identity Is a Moving Target. Break the Shape You Were Given.Nothing Holds—Why Should You? Nothing in me settles. Even my shadows keep moving. I let go of who I was, not gently, but like something torn free. I don’t build a life the way I was taught to. I don’t stack identities, don’t polish them
Through An Ongoing Exploration of Identity and Impermanence Across the past decade, my work in avant-garde cinema and video art has traced a continuous thread through memory, identity, and transformation. These short films are not bound by traditional narrative structures; instead, they emerge as fragments—emotional, philosophical, and deeply personal—inviting the viewer into shifting inner landscapes.
The PhotoWalk Podcast EPISODE #525 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE PROFOUNDLY There are moments in life when something deeply personal finds its way into the wider world—and this is one of them. My photo project Chalk-Stone White has been included in The PhotoWalk Podcast by Neale James, Episode #525: “How to Change Your Life Profoundly” (UK, 27 March 2026).
The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon
We walk across collapsed burial mounds, along worn tarmac and salt marsh, through quagmires where black crows pick at the remnants of life. ‘THIS TERRAIN MIRRORS OUR OWN MOMENT. PAST AND PRESENT NO LONGER SIT IN SEQUENCE BUT OVERLAP, ERODING INTO ONE ANOTHER. THE CHALK CLIFFS, CONTINUALLY SHAPED BY PRESSURE AND WEATHER, REVEAL HOW ALL
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.
RetroQuito’25 with Patriarchal Sabbath (video art) 4 July – 30 September 2025 Cinemateca Nacional de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana cinema “Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco” Cologne Alphabet Art Centre Retrospective Quito/Ecuador featuring the screening programs which Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was curating for Muestra International de Video Arte Quito (MIVA) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023,
Women Artists Directory: We are Here, USA, 5 June 2025 Read here… Women Artists Directory: Where Are The Women Artists, South Africa, March 2025 Read here…
‘Asche – Aschgeboren’; Galerie FLOX. Kirschau, Germany CATALOGUE and the Curation of the Exhibition by Holger Wendland Monika K. Adler ~ Kathrin Christoph ~ Tom Glöß ~ Frank Herrmann ~ Matthias Jackisch ~ Yulia Kapustynska ~ Katrin König ~ Werner Klompen ~ Joe Lehmann ~ Katharina Lewonig ~ Irena Paskali ~ Detlef Schweiger ~ Jörg
Pelican’s blood, The Eye of Photography, 2nd November 2024, Paris, France. Read here: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/monika-k-adler/ Double Vision, 591 – photography blog, 1 November 2024, Germany. Read Here: https://www.591photography.com/2024/10/double-vision.html
