Martyna Benedyka
Chaise longue, 2025
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
Unique Works
Frame not included
Signature: Lower right corner
Mother’s Diary is a multidisciplinary project that traces a visual narrative through intimate objects that once belonged to my mother. The series focuses on the quiet relics of everyday life: braids of hair cut twenty years ago, her first crochet hook, handwritten notes, scraps of fabric tucked away in forgotten corners. These objects carry with them a sense of presence and absence, now resting in silence. Photographed in the state in which they were found, they have been curated by me so that the past and the present intertwine. The objects become an archive and a bridge for the body and mind. This project began as an attempt to document a personal home archive, and is now evolving into a reflection on how identity, care and memory are rooted in everyday objects.
Martyna Benedyka
France, b. 1991
Martyna Benedyka (b. 1991, Poland) is a multidisciplinary visual and performing artist and classically trained coloratura soprano, working with image, voice, and sound. Drawing from a rich cultural and linguistic background, she creates across English, German, French, Italian, Romanian, and Japanese. Working across painting, drawing, photography, textile work, collage, installation, and sound, she focuses on the instability of memory - both personal and collective - while exploring how these moments affect our sense of identity and our experience of beauty. She studied Art and Design at the Gray’s School of Art in Scotland, UK, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting; Classical Singing (Opera, Lied, Oratorio) and Music Pedagogy at the George Enescu National University of Arts; and Baroque Singing at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She has exhibited in the UK, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, South Korea, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and the USA. She is a member of Futures Photography, The Netherlands and Art Contemporain en Bretagne, France, among others.