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
‘Freedom begins where the old story ends’. ophelia rising now. ”OPHELIA RISING’ IS AN INVITATION: TO STEP OUT OF THE WATER, TO LET THE OLD SELF DISSOLVE, AND TO RESURRECT INTO A FREER EXISTENCE. She is taught to be beautiful before she is taught to be free. From childhood, the script is whispered into her
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
Art is my practice of freedom — a rehearsal in being, in soft strength, in radical presence. In my series On Being an Angel, I explore freedom as a lived, embodied experience — especially the freedom of a woman who chooses to exist as an artist. To create not as decoration, not as permission-seeking, but
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.
Freedom looks like disorder, It smells like decay, And still, it is freedom. The Scent of Freedom In the final years of communism, a system built on control, my grandmother—a nurse at a psychiatric hospital in central Poland—used to take me with her to work. I was a child, watching quietly. The hospital had been
Born during the collapse of communism, my childhood was spent between my grandfather’s cinema and the psychiatric hospital where my grandmother worked. I silently observed the fragility of human nature and learned early on that sanity is political and reality is negotiable.
THE FICTIONAL: HOW MONIKA K. ADLER EXPOSES POWER, TRUTH, AND MANIPULATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY, About Photography Blog, UK, 7 September, 2025
Involuntary Memory Involuntary Memory, directed by Monika K. Adler will be shown during three months of screenings, June 28 to September 28, 2025 as part of Art in Lima 2025, ‘MUTE – Museu dos Terceiros,’ Ponte de Lima, Portugal. See website for more information “Dedicated to the theme of History, Identity, and Tradition. The international
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,
