Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Kristina Savutsina détaille avec finesse les chorégraphies quotidiennes auxquelles s’adonnent ou se soumettent les habitant.e.s d’une bourgade biélorusse. En choisissant le plan fixe et un montage associatif, Khan’s Flesh porte ainsi un regard distancié et teinté d’ironie sur une société corsetée par d’intangibles relations de pouvoir.

Kristina Savutsina was born in 1989 in Riga, into a Belarusian family. From 1993 to 2014 she lived in Belarus. She graduated with diploma in cultural studies in Minsk. In 2014 Kristina moved to Germany, where she has been studying film and fine arts at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). In her work Kristina deals with regulatory politics and its concrete manifestations in Belarus. Besides artistic practice she works as curator and translator. She lives and works in Hamburg. Georg Kussmann was born in Halle/Saale, East Germany in 1989 and grew up there. He studied photography and film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Currently he lives in Berlin and works as an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer.