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Yan Tomaszewski

Gangnam Beauty

Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 23:11 | France | 2020

English-born influencer Oli London are fascinated by South Korea and especially by Jimin, a member of worldwide famous K-pop band BTS. For years, they have spent a fortune on plastic surgery to look like him and become a K-pop star themself. Their personal journey is staged via a Korean tale about masks, taboo, and shamanism.

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.