Inner Landscapes - Round Two
Dialogues
#4: January - December 2025
Artists
A photographer and visual artist whose journey bridges art and technology. She graduated from the Contemporary Media Practice program at the University of Westminster in 2014, exploring photography and installation as forms of expression. After six years working in software development, she has shifted her focus back to artistic practices that resonate with her vision and inner rhythm.
She spent 13 years in London, where her work was exhibited at Ambika P3 and The Holy Art Gallery. Now back in Romania, she is embracing a slower pace of life, reconnecting with her creative process, and deepening her artistic exploration.
A filmmaker and visual artist. She works primarily with video, documenting place and the built environment. Her experience with breast cancer has impacted her work, pushing her to pursue personal projects, exploring themes of home and childhood, illness and death, resilience and adaptation. After graduating from the Film and TV Production course at Westminster University in 2015, she continued to work in the film industry as Production Designer for film as well as with immersive installation and analogue film, having her work showcased both in the UK and at film festivals abroad. Over the years she has been teaching filmmaking to children of all ages. Having grown up in London, April is now based between London and her place of birth in Jiu Valley, Romania.
A London-based photographer and community builder with a passion for capturing emotion, atmosphere, and story through the lens. Photography has been her constant companion since childhood, starting with her first film camera at 12 and evolving through years of experimentation and discovery. A pivotal trip to Iceland in 2018 reawakened Carola’s love for visual storytelling and set her on a more intentional path. Under the guidance of her tutor and mentor, Ion Paciu, she began to hone her technical skills and artistic voice. Her work spans landscapes, cityscapes, nature, and still life - often minimal, often moody - capturing quiet scenes that invite reflection. Each image is a way for her to make sense of the world, and herself, one frame at a time.
A multidisciplinary visual and performing artist and a classically trained coloratura soprano, working with image, voice, and sound. Through painting, drawing, photography, embroidery, collage, installation, video, field recording, and sound art, she explores the fragility of personal and collective memory, questions of existence, and the experience of beauty and the sublime.
She studied Art and Design at Gray’s School of Art in Scotland, UK, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting; Vocal Studies and Music Pedagogy at the George Enescu National University of Arts; and Baroque Singing at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She is a member of Futures Photography, The Netherlands, and Art Contemporain en Bretagne, France. She specializes in Early and Classical music, with a particular focus on the late Baroque repertoire.
Inner Landscapes - Round One
Dialogues #3: January - August 2024
The Inner Landscapes - Dialogues #3 is the result of the artistic collaboration of Alexandra Margarint, April Ibinceanu, and Martyna Benedyka. Their common experiences with physical and mental suffering, disease, loss or resilience in the face of a worldwide pandemic drew them closer together. The three artists engaged in conversation about loneliness and isolation in times of pain in order to create a private space by echoing, responding, and starting a dialogue.
Dialogues #3 is part of the Dialogues Hybrid Project created by Elisavet Kalpaxi in 2022.
Martyna Benedyka
Curator
© Martyna Benedyka
© Alexandra Margarint
© April Ibinceanu
Artists
Martyna Benedyka (1991) is a visual and sound artist, photographer, soprano, and teacher. Working in a wide range of media including painting, photography, collage, installation, video, field recording, and sound art, she focuses on various concepts of existence, memory and beauty, always looking behind what is seen.
She studied Art and Design at the Gray’s School of Art in Scotland, UK and graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Painting in 2014. She has exhibited in the UK, Italy, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Estonia, South Korea, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the USA. She is a member of Futures Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (winner 2022). She specializes in early and classical music.
www.martynabenedyka.com
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Alexandra Margarint is a photographer and visual artist whose journey bridges art and technology. She graduated from the Contemporary Media Practice program at the University of Westminster in 2014, exploring photography and installation as forms of expression. After six years working in software development, she has shifted her focus back to artistic practices that resonate with her vision and inner rhythm.
She spent 13 years in London, where her work was exhibited at Ambika P3 and The Holy Art Gallery. Now back in Romania, she is embracing a slower pace of life, reconnecting with her creative process, and deepening her artistic exploration.
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April Ibinceanu is a filmmaker and visual artist. She works primarily with video, documenting place and the built environment. Her experience with breast cancer has impacted her work, pushing her to pursue personal projects, exploring themes of home and childhood, illness and death, resilience and adaptation. After graduating from the Film and TV Production course at Westminster University in 2015, she continued to work in the film industry as Production Designer for film as well as with immersive installation and analogue film, having her work showcased both in the UK and at film festivals abroad. Over the years she has been teaching filmmaking to children of all ages. Having grown up in London, April is now based between London and her place of birth in Jiu Valley, Romania.
www.aprilibinceanu.com
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