“My home is surrounded by nature. Throughout my childhood, fields, forests, and lakes were always within reach, and most of my games and activities revolved around exploring ever-new landscapes. This environment made fauna and flora ever-present in my work and inseparably connected to my identity. Nature is the element that links me to both my physical and metaphorical home, evoking memories and the people among whom I grew up.
I had the privilege of growing up knowing my grandparents and great-grandparents, whose stories and dialect allowed me to travel back in time. Their accounts, reaching back over a century, revealed to me their perception of a completely different and unfamiliar life. Old photographs, diaries, and drawings help me relate more closely to these events, giving me the opportunity to tell the story of my childhood—the foundation of my identity.
In my work, I try to “hand over the reins” to my younger self and enter into a dialogue with that version of me, so that I may once again look at the world with the same original fascination. I particularly often return to memories of summer, a time when nature is in full bloom and memories become the most vivid.
Today, I most often express these experiences through lithography. This technique allows me to maintain direct contact with the medium, and working with a lithographic stone is an experience that unites my vision and form into a coherent whole.”
A. J.
bio
Adam Jedynak, born on May 16, 2001, graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gorzów Wielkopolski in 2021, specializing in graphic design. In the same year, he began his studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2024 and is currently in the second year of his Master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
The artist draws inspiration from themes of nature and childhood, paying particular attention to the place where he was raised. He works primarily with various lithographic techniques and algrafy. In his artistic practice, he explores the history of his own family, drawing upon archival photographs and written records, which he symbolically juxtaposes with the omnipresent natural world and the landscape familiar to both himself and his ancestors.
His most recent works record a child’s perspective on the world—a way of seeing shaped by close contact with nature and family stories about a distant past. By recalling personal experiences and increasingly fragmented memories of people and events, the artist undertakes an interpretation of the factors that shaped his perception during that period.
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