Look at it again!: Monica Carvalho's perfect photomontages

The Swiss photographer has a simple motto: “Make the ordinary extraordinary.” She achieves this perfectly through simple yet meaningful photo collages.

A thoughtful, carefully considered surrealism, almost like Chema Madoz , Laura Quevedo or Kit Layfield . But without so much metaphor. Just the shape, the colour, the ingenuity. That is the key to the work of the Swiss artist living in Berlin, Monica Carvalho, who creates impossible scenarios by annexing and juxtaposing concepts that are not only antagonistic, but that were never intended to collaborate artistically.

Photography without limits…everything can be combined

Through similarities in colour, texture or appearance, the young artist, fascinated since childhood by “photography and illusionism” and captivated by the surrealist movement, as she herself explains on her website , is able to impress her viewers by mixing snails with brown eyes, shells as ears, vaults as breasts, arms as loaves of bread, goats as airplanes or STOP signs as lips.

All the work, merit of the artist

Since she discovered the possibilities of Photoshop, she says, her life motto has been “ Make the ordinary extraordinary .” As she herself says, everyday life can be so dull that we tend not to notice things beyond what they serve.

My work aims to offer a new way of looking at everyday things , elevating their meanings. There is potential inspiration everywhere, it just depends on our perspective.

Monica Carvalho

Oh! And an important fact: she took all the photographs herself , which makes these “artistic adventures” not only exciting in themselves, but also “incredibly personal” for Carvalho.