Marcin Jachim – Portfolio

Windows (2025)

It began with a field archive of photographs of frames, windows, and screens, then tested how an image shifts across media: digital layering and edits, quick pastel studies, and finally acrylic painting.

The “window” operates as both structure and metaphor- between inner and outer states. The installation paired Allaprima Series I–III (acrylic on canvas) with the digital piece Move On; recurring fractured grids and circular tensions remain, but each medium filters sensation differently, opening a suspended space of perception.

Medium: Digital print on archive paper, acrylic on canvas

Love Letters (2017–2025)

Eight-year investigation into alternative forms of communication through art. Individual works spanning painting, photography, digital media, and animation were shared on Facebook as visual correspondence with someone unreachable through conventional dialogue.

Each piece served as both autonomous artwork and coded message.

The project concluded in 2025, marking both an artistic and personal closure.

Medium: Digital (animations/GIFs), oil & acrylic on canvas, mixed media, drawings on paper, collage

Mobile Artworks (2014–2015)

Individual experiments pushing smartphone technology as artistic medium. Each piece explores different conceptual territories- from digital collage to symbolic imagery- using mobile apps and processing capabilities of early mobile devices.

Medium: Digital

Spatial Interventions (2014)

Wireframe geometries that first emerged as internal obsessions- drawn, studied, inhabited-then projected onto physical landscapes using mobile technology, where digital forms colonize and transform familiar territories.

Medium: Digital

Mobile Street Photography (2015–2019)

Selected frames documenting Dublin's urban landscape. Images emerge from creative flow states during random city walks, where instinct and split-second timing capture random public scenes as they crystallize into cinematic frames.

Medium: Photography

#12x2 (2014)

When mobile photography rarely entered Polish institutions, #12x2 examined what happens to an image born in social feeds when entering the white cube. The title pairs the hashtag- native to network culture- with the form of twelve diptychs (12×2). Each diptych comprises two prints from photographs made on an early smartphone and processed exclusively in Instagram as it existed at the time.

Sequenced to build rhythm, the pairs form a visual dialogue, composing a narrative of everyday observations. Small scale, limited resolution, and compression artefacts become deliberate elements of the vocabulary.

Medium: Photography prints

Some Kind of Mood (2011)

October 2011, Poland.

Medium: Photography

Winter (2013)

Winter 2013, Poland.

Medium: Photography

Marcin Jachim (b. 1979) is a Polish visual artist based in Dublin, studying BA Fine Art Painting at NCAD. Graduate of Phototechnician studies, Katowice (2010). Co-founder of Fotografia Komórkowa (2011)- Facebook community of thousands sharing smartphone photography. His 2014 solo exhibition #12x2 at Galeria Pusta C.D. was among the first institutional presentations of mobile photography in Poland.

Since relocating to Ireland (2015), social media became primary exhibition platform. Member Visual Artists Ireland and Photo Museum Ireland (2025).

I'm fascinated by how spiritual and physical realities interpenetrate. I translate dreams, observations, and emotions into images, choosing whatever medium best serves the thought.