Monica Menez
Germany
Artist Statement
Description
Multimess is a hybrid of “multitasking” and “mess.” It captures the paradoxical reality many women experience: the constant juggling of careers, family, finances, relationships, and self-expression. In this balancing act, chaos becomes both inevitable and strangely beautiful — sometimes controlled, often not. Multimess is the moment when perfectionism meets burnout, where glamour collides with exhaustion, and where the attempt to keep everything under control transforms into a wild, expressive artwork of its own. It’s about the aesthetics of overwhelm, the poetry of breakdown, and the humor that can be found in daily survival. Each image contains a hidden augmented reality layer that can be discovered using the ARTIVIVE app — a digital undercurrent that reveals what lies beneath the surface: looping movements, subtle disruptions, or emotional echoes the still frame alone can’t capture.
Process
Multimess began with overload. Too many roles, too many tabs open—in life and on screen. As a woman, artist, mother, creative entrepreneur, I was constantly switching modes, never arriving. I started creating small visual loops. Fragments. Messes. Reversed motions. Failed celebrations. They felt more honest than perfection. I didn’t want clean stories. I wanted emotional glitches. Multimess is not about chaos—it’s about the beauty inside it. About control lost and creativity found in the middle of the noise.
Tools
Midjourney, Magnifiq Ai, Photoshop, Kling Ai
