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Matti

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Out painting with Gsulf and Seb. I had an appointment, so I had only an hour to paint, and being me I started painting something big. Obviously, I couldn’t fill the background, but Mattie was there to fill it for me : )


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Gsulf


S.Touache

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Gsulf and me and blue sky :-)


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In July, I had an exhibition at A-frame, and I made a drape for the show. It was one of eight drapes I had sketched earlier this year. It was a cozy show partly because A-frame is a perfectly cozy place, and partly because of the people who visited. It was also lovely to see them trying on the drape which cocooned them.

Here are some pictures of the show.

And today, I wanted to share a few photos of the making process.

After the cutting of the fabric, each piece was placed and pinned. Then they were all hand sewn on to the main fabric.

I wanted the drape to have some volume, so I sandwiched some wool inside.

After placing the wool inside, I hand quilted the whole drape.

A shaky photo of the drape and I. If you closely, I’m wearing a fanny pack which holds my thread, scissors, pins, and needles : )

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It’s been a few weeks since my film 결 premiered on NOWNESS, and now it also lives on my Vimeo page. And it proudly wears a VIMEO STAFF PICK badge on the top left corner! What?!!! is what I said when I first saw the badge :)

From premiering on NOWNESS to being selected as VIMEO STAFF PICK, I’m foremost grateful. Especially because it is such a small film. It all birthed in my small living room where I conceptualized, set designed, filmed, edited, composited, colored, with no crew and no fancy equipment, and all the props were sourced either from a second-hand shop or from dumpsters. I don’t dumpster hunt often, but I enjoy it enough to know where I can find dumpsters full of fabrics and dumpsters full of flowers. And the rest, I picked them up from a shop which sells second-hand props from other productions. This way of prop searching required me to be flexible – I didn’t know what flowers I was going to find, I couldn’t choose the colors of the fabrics I was going to dig up, I couldn’t predict the things I was going to come across at a second-hand shop. Some might call this a challenge, but for me, this was a blessing because it gave a little boundary I had to work with which usually lacks in personal projects.

I didn’t take many behind-the-scenes photos while filming, because I was alone and I forgot to take photos. But here are some. Warning – it’s messy and heavily improvised with anything and everything I can find useful around the house, including a laundry drying rack, plant pots, books, canvas, record player, coffee tins, etc. Perhaps you will look at the film differently after seeing these making-of photos; you might be disappointed that there’s no spacious studio nor professional equipment; the film might lose its ‘magic.’ I hesitated, hesitated and hesitated. But I love watching other’s behind-the-scenes, I always learn from them, and somehow they motivate me to make films. So I share these in hope that you feel the same way.


Believe it or not, everything you see in this mess has a function ; )


To get the ball to roll down and stop right in front of the hole, I think I rolled the ball close to 100 times, or at least it felt like it. Also in reality, I only had this small block of red carpet, and the pink curtain didn’t cover the entire wall. That was a bit of the running theme while shooting, making things look bigger, larger and wider than what was available.


At 5.30AM, the tripod which should’ve been locked got shifted ever so slightly. Who kicked it?! Must’ve been me since I was alone : ( Tried for almost an hour to match the shots with no luck. I gave up when I saw the sun coming up and had a reshoot the day after.


It takes longer to set up lights and shoot when you are also in the film. Yes, it’s me you see in the film : )

Perhaps you want to watch the film one more time after seeing these making-of photos? And since the shoot, I promise my house is back in order!

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For many many months, I didn’t open my plant presser. Look at all these leaves and flowers which came out from there! Some plants I collect because I like their forms, and some I collect them to remember the moment. I can’t recall where and when I collected half of these plants, but others bring back good memories. My herbier is also my diary.

The view out my balcony <3

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Everyone’s on holiday and Paris is empty these days. Soon, everyone will return, but for now, I love Paris like this.

With Obisk and Gsulf.

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BIG NEWS –

Recently, I made a new personal short film, titled 결, and it got premiered on NOWNESS on Aug 9!

I’m so grateful it premiered on such an amazing platform and viewed by so many people (AKA dream come true). This is something I never even imagined when I was setting up scenes in my tiny living room, shooting in the middle of the night because I couldn’t block out lights during the day, and going through dumpsters for props! Well, I’ll share behind the scenes sometime in the future : )

But all this was not possible without the help of Kitty Turley (executive producer at Strange Beast) and Strange Beast (a production company in London who represents my director work in the UK), who gave me valuable feedback when I shared the rough edit with her and furthermore hooked me up with Father (amazingly talented music & sound duo in London / check out the COS commercial they sound designed and was featured in a few years ago, this is how I became a fan) who created a beautifully strange sound and music for the film. But above all, I’m grateful for her enthusiasm when I first showed her the rough edit. She was the first to see it, because I’m never confident about whatever I’m making, I unintentionally or intentionally hid the film while working on it. And her enthusiasm sort of gave me a karate chop on my head and made me realize that maybe I do have a bit of talent in filmmaking. Well, this is another topic about my self-confidence or a lack of it ; ) Finally, the premiere on NOWNESS became a reality thanks to Sam Gray (head of communications at Strange Beast) who presented the film to them and discussed all the details with them. Thank you thank you thank you!

Here are some words about the film on NOWNESS –

If you watched it already, cool! If not, head over to NOWNESS to watch 결! And let me know what you think about it : )

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www.nowness.com/story/gyeol

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Friends, painting, fun days in Angers. Thanks Alexis for organizing : )


Gsulf


Djob


Suaa


コンタン


Smoh


Gsu


Mattie and I, once again, made a mistake with the train ticket and had to buy another return tickets. It seems like an ongoing theme this year, but thanks to the mistake, we had an afternoon by the river ; )

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In the suburb of Paris, inside a big warehouse-turned-atelier shared by many artists, there’s a small space Blaise Parmentier and Théo Robine-Langlois built above their shared workspace and under the angled roof to invite artists and organize exhibitions. Space is named appropriately A-frame as you can see in the photos.

It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to show in this uniquely shaped space. Then I realized the form of the drapes I’ve sketched during La Patronne residency early this year would fit nicely. Hence I decided to make the first drape of the eight I’ve sketched. Then Théo came up with the title of the exhibition <1 of 8>.

During the vernissage (June 22, 2018), we let people wear the drape. It was interesting to see how everyone moved so differently in it from one another. And now I can’t wait to make all eight drapes and see them worn by people, although this will take some time.

Big big thanks to all of you who came out, traveled across town in the midst of a train strike, to see my work. Sincere thank you thank you thank you! And of course a big thanks to Théo and Blaise : )

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1 of 8
A-Frame
11, avenue Victor Hugo
F–93120 La Courneuve 
June 22 2018 – TBD
by appointment

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