Monika
fischbein

ARTIST STATEMENT

Image credit @Kryzyminscy

My practice is rooted in long-term research into identity, ritual, and cosmology as living systems of meaning. Rather than treating identity as a fixed social category, I approach it as a dynamic field shaped by memory, place, lineage, and experience, constantly forming and reforming across time.

Working across photographic, symbolic, and process-led methodologies, I explore how cultural, psychological, and spiritual structures intersect within the construction of identity. My work is informed by an interest in archetypal imagery, sacred geometry, and esoteric traditions, where making becomes a form of enquiry rather than representation alone.

Research underpins my work. I draw on historical, cultural, and philosophical sources to examine how collective narratives shape personal experience, while remaining attentive to the lived and sensory dimensions of knowledge. My projects frequently explore the symbolic languages through which communities express belonging, displacement, and continuity.

Overall, I am an Energy Symbolist & Strategist. In my creative practice, art becomes a magickal act, it becomes research, and the boundaries between human and non-human, public and private, visible and occult are continually re-negotiated. Ritual is central to my practice. How repeated actions, ceremonial structures, and embodied processes can function as tools for understanding the relationship between the individual and larger systems of existence. Through this entangled lens, I aim to cultivate experiences that are both transformative and unsettling, where mystery is not resolved but invited.

Alongside all this, I am a mentor and Cultural Director within community-led initiatives. This reflects my belief that creative enquiry is relational: identity is never constructed alone. Ultimately, my work seeks to understand identity as something situated between matter and spirit, between memory and becoming, where cosmological imagination and lived experience meet.