Marta Hryniuk

video - film

In my work I use moving image to assemble fragmentary portraits of people, communities and places, exploring the affective textures of their lives. I am attentive to the histories that have shaped them, complicating them where possible and resisting linear timelines. My practice evolves in dialogue with other artists and film-makers, and I now frequently collaborate rather than working individually. I often work with female subjects and biographies, especially those shaped by experiences of displacement. I am interested in the complicated entanglements of eastern European countries, and their diasporas, something which has become more acute since moving away from Poland myself in 2016. I want to know what can be learned and reclaimed from these histories and narratives, and how they shape people’s intersubjective experiences. My dual perspective – as both insider and outsider – has enabled me to see these narratives as a part of a shared political space, and as a catalyst for imagining alternative ways of living and working together.


Weightless, with Nick Thomas, 70min, 2023
School Number One, with Nick Thomas, 2022 - Still from video, School Number One, two channel video installation, sound, 2022
‘Forces’, with Nick Thomas, 11m20s, 16mm. transferred to digital, 2020
The Close River, 27m, 16mm transferred to digital, 2020
Sohaila, 3m, 16mm. transferred to digital, 2019
Balkon van Europa, with Erika Roux, 14m, 2018
de Spiegel, HD video, 5min, 2018