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Yan Tomaszewski

Gangnam Beauty

Doc. expérimental | 4k | couleur | 23:11 | France | 2020

L'influenceur·euse anglais·e Oli London est fasciné·e par la Corée du Sud et surtout par Jimin, membre du célèbre groupe de K-pop BTS. Depuis des années, iel dépense une fortune en chirurgie esthétique pour lui ressembler et devenir à son tour une star de la K-pop. Son cheminement personnel est mis en scène via un conte coréen parlant de masques, de tabou et de chamanisme.

Yan Tomaszewski is a Franco-Polish filmmaker and visual artist trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains. His often narrative projects combine research-based methodologies with visually seductive outcomes. His films were screened in such festivals as IDFA International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (NL), FIFA Montreal (CA), FID Marseille (FR), Kasseler Dokfest (DE), Doclisboa (PT), and recently in a solo presentation for Prospectif Cinéma at Centre Pompidou in Paris (FR). He has had solo exhibitions at the Archaeological Museum in Krakow (PL), at the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget (FR) or the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp (BE). He has taken part in numerous group shows, notably at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (USA), at Artience Daejeon (KR), at the Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (FR), at the Centre Pompidou (FR), and at Manifesta 9 in Genk (BE). He has received grants from Ateliers Médicis, French Institute, DRAC, CNC-DICRéAM or the Vysehrad Fund. In 2019 he was nominated for Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art and in 2020 he was finalist of Studio Collector Prize and laureate of Allegro Prize.