Marcin Jachim – Visual Artist

Love Letters (2017–present)

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

Each piece serves as both autonomous artwork and coded message. Shown here: a selection from 86 works.

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

Windows (2025)

Made at the end of first year at NCAD and shown at the first-year exhibition. It started as a photo archive of frames, windows and screens, which I pushed through digital edits, quick pastel studies and finally acrylic painting. Shown as an installation: Allaprima Series I–III (acrylic on canvas) with the digital print Move On.

Medium: Digital print on archive paper, acrylic on canvas

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 painter and photographer based in Dublin since 2015, currently studying BA Fine Art Painting at NCAD. He trained as a photo technician in Katowice, graduating in 2010.

In 2011 he co-founded Fotografia Komórkowa, a Facebook community of several thousand members sharing smartphone photography. His 2014 solo exhibition #12x2 at Galeria Pusta C.D. was among the first institutional presentations of mobile photography in Poland.

I want someone to stop. In a reality this fast and this chaotic, it's good to stop sometimes.

I believe in the invisible, in the middle of our everyday realism.

I photograph, paint, draw, glue, peel off. I build layers and take them back. I dream. I do it to see a picture of it.