Monika Chabicovsky

Whispering about instable identities

by Monika Chabicovsky (Austria)

www.monikachabicovsky.com

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Born in Austria, photographic artist Monika Chabicovsky creates work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality. Her path into photography was far from linear, beginning with a scientific foundation in toxicology and drug development before evolving into visual storytelling. Trained at Magnum Photos & Spéos in Paris, she now fuses keen observation with conceptual exploration, often producing layered, three-dimensional images. Whether collaborating with her mentally unwell sister or exploring identity through self-portraiture, her photographs evoke the mysterious, the porous, and the bittersweet.

Fascinated by the hidden aspects of life — unseen layers beneath the surface, the beauty of cells, and microscopic patterns — Monika gravitates toward themes of identity, inner conflict, illness, and perception. Her work probes the undisclosed: the gap between public selves and private truths, unstable identities, and the duality of illness — at once the invisible patterns of disease within the body and the lived presence of the individual.