Yan Tomaszewski
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  • Sequana Inspired by anatomical ex-votos found at the sources of the Seine, wooden body parts were sculpted, transformed into activated carbon, and immersed in the river to absorb its pollutants. 
  • Gangnam Beauty An English person’s journey to become like their K-pop idol, told via a Korean tale about mask dancing and shamanism 
  • Khthon The anticipation of a geological life gaining the ascendant over the botanical and the biological. 
  • The Good Breast and the Bad Breast An architectural and psychoanalytical investigation into the mysterious destruction of an art collectors’ house in California. 
  • Tchouri A sculpture-architecture designed for the Air and Space Museum in Paris-Le Bourget. At once cave, alchemical alembic and astrochemistry lab. 
  • The Boogeyman A project in public space commissioned by the Middelheim Museum for an empty plinth located in Antwerp’s city park. A six-month performance adressing city branding, cannibalism and colonialism. 
  • Message from Charlotte A science fiction exhibition. A case study of the promotional language used in the rebranding of industrial cities 
  • The Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Initiated with the recarving of an iconic Czechoslovakian font, the project has expanded to an ongoing performance and exhibition-based narration, dealing with national identity, typography, surrealism, and divination. 
  • Museum of reproduction An attempt to reincarnate the work and life of a Polish Constructivist and alpinist from the 1920’s. 
  • Module A teenager’s creative relationship with coal-mining heritage is put into perspective to question the making of young artists. 
  • Embellissements A series of works focussing on the transformation of Parisian cityscape, confronting the urban planner with the worker. 
  • Sequana Inspired by anatomical ex-votos found at the sources of the Seine, wooden body parts were sculpted, transformed into activated carbon, and immersed in the river to absorb its pollutants. 
  • Gangnam Beauty An English person’s journey to become like their K-pop idol, told via a Korean tale about mask dancing and shamanism 
  • Khthon The anticipation of a geological life gaining the ascendant over the botanical and the biological. 
  • The Good Breast and the Bad Breast An architectural and psychoanalytical investigation into the mysterious destruction of an art collectors’ house in California. 
  • Tchouri A sculpture-architecture designed for the Air and Space Museum in Paris-Le Bourget. At once cave, alchemical alembic and astrochemistry lab. 
  • The Boogeyman A project in public space commissioned by the Middelheim Museum for an empty plinth located in Antwerp’s city park. A six-month performance adressing city branding, cannibalism and colonialism. 
  • Message from Charlotte A science fiction exhibition. A case study of the promotional language used in the rebranding of industrial cities 
  • The Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Initiated with the recarving of an iconic Czechoslovakian font, the project has expanded to an ongoing performance and exhibition-based narration, dealing with national identity, typography, surrealism, and divination. 
  • Museum of reproduction An attempt to reincarnate the work and life of a Polish Constructivist and alpinist from the 1920’s. 
  • Module A teenager’s creative relationship with coal-mining heritage is put into perspective to question the making of young artists. 
  • Embellissements A series of works focussing on the transformation of Parisian cityscape, confronting the urban planner with the worker.