Edition 2009
Oan KIM
Born in 1974 in Saint-Denis, France
Oan Kim studied visual arts at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and composition in the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur.
Co-founder of the M.Y.O.P agency, he divides his time between conceptual photography and playing with the band Film Noir.
Over the last ten years his photography has been pursuing a subjective documentary-like approach, which combines formal visual research with an intimate questioning of reality. The Fanfares series – a 1999 National Visual Arts Centre commission – portrayed the wild goings-on in French student brass bands; the La Plage series, produced in Hawaii on a FIACRE incentive grant, dramatised the mysterious emptiness of the seaside.
More recently his series Useless revisited the theme of the Vanitas that he had previously examined in a series on sidewalks, further pursuing image/word relationships. In the last few years his work has been focusing on cities and streets, combining documentary and diary, visual wonder and challenges to the spectator’s experience.
www.myop.fr/fr/series/oan-kim
Co-founder of the M.Y.O.P agency, he divides his time between conceptual photography and playing with the band Film Noir.
Over the last ten years his photography has been pursuing a subjective documentary-like approach, which combines formal visual research with an intimate questioning of reality. The Fanfares series – a 1999 National Visual Arts Centre commission – portrayed the wild goings-on in French student brass bands; the La Plage series, produced in Hawaii on a FIACRE incentive grant, dramatised the mysterious emptiness of the seaside.
More recently his series Useless revisited the theme of the Vanitas that he had previously examined in a series on sidewalks, further pursuing image/word relationships. In the last few years his work has been focusing on cities and streets, combining documentary and diary, visual wonder and challenges to the spectator’s experience.
www.myop.fr/fr/series/oan-kim
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