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Inner Landscapes
Dialogues #3
© Martyna Benedyka
© Alexandra Margarint
© April Ibinceanu
Dialogues #3 – Inner Landscapes is a project by Martyna Benedyka, Alexandra Margaint, and April Ibinceanu, started in 2024. The project was proposed and curated by Martyna Benedyka and emerges from shared experiences of illness, loss, and physical and emotional vulnerability in the period surrounding the pandemic. The first phase of the project was completed in August 2024, and the second phase ended in March 2026.
The work is based on continuous exchange between the three artists, where conversation itself becomes both method and material. Each piece is like a voice – sometimes quiet, sometimes bold – but always aware of the others. The artists’ exchange, through gestures, textures, silences, and sounds, becomes a private space where vulnerability is not shown for others to judge, but held safely and respectfully. The project is aimed at a broad audience, including patients recovering from surgery or cancer treatment, people living with mental health conditions, medical staff, students, adolescents, and adults.The audience is invited into a reflective space where vulnerability is experienced as a shared human condition.
Dialogues #3 is part of the broader Dialogues Hybrid Project, initiated by Elisavet Kalpaxi in 2022. As a platform, the project invites artists to participate in processes of exchange that blur the lines between individual authorship and collective reflection. In this context, Benedyka, Ibinceanu, and Margarint take the dialogue beyond words, entering into an embodied practice. The viewer is not perceived as an observer of pain from a safe distance, but as a silent participant – invited to listen, pause, and perhaps recognize fragments of their own inner landscape in the works. In a time defined by separation, the Inner Landscapes – Dialogues #3 emphasizes connection and care. It reminds us that even in isolation, dialogue remains possible, even as a subtle act of reaching out to another.
Martyna Benedyka
Curator
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Alexandra Margarint is a photographer and visual artist. She graduated from the Contemporary Media Practice program at the University of Westminster in 2014, working with photography and installation as forms of expression. After six years in software development, she has returned to her artistic practice. She spent 13 years in London, where her work was exhibited at Ambika P3 and The Holy Art Gallery. She is now based in Iasi, Romania.
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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.
https://www.aprilibinceanu.com/
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.
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A multidisciplinary visual and performing artist and classically trained soprano, she works 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 in France. She specializes in Early and Classical music, with a particular focus on the late Baroque repertoire.
She lives and works in France.
https://martynabenedyka.com/
Dialogues #3 - Inner Landscapes
January - August 2024
Artists: Martyna Benedyka, April Ibinceanu, Alexandra Margarint
Dialogues #4 - Inner Landscapes
January 2025 - March 2026
Artists: Martyna Benedyka, Carola Burmester, April Ibinceanu, Alexandra Margarint
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© Dialogues 3, 2024-2026