Jean-Julien Pous

Video Artist


Jean-Julien Pous belongs to that generation of artists for whom moving images are no longer just a medium, but a realm of thought and presence. His work — shaped by questions of the body, memory, and disappearance — explores the human condition in a world where the interface all too often replaces the encounter.

Trained between France, China, and Korea, Pous develops an aesthetic of the threshold: his videos do not show, they reveal. Through slowness, floating, and suspension, he captures the latent states of our time. His installations — often immersive, always sensitive — do not seek effect, but the surface: a tremor of the visible, a meditation on time.

Presented several times at the National Museum of Korea, where his Cycle series dialogues with the Méditant Maitreya, he has managed to anchor his work in a heritage context without giving in to the temptation of illustration. Winter Times, inspired by the work of Kim Jeong-hui, and Barren Garden, a reflection on fertile emptiness, testify to his ability to weave together the intimate and the collective, the past and the present.

In 2025, he is the only video artist invited to the grand special exhibition at the Museum of History of Seoul, where his works will dialogue with ancient scrolls to mark the 60th anniversary of Korea-Japan diplomatic relations. His installation Mouvement, conceived for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has been nominated for the Prix Nouvelles Écritures de la Scam.

At the intersection of animation and visual poetry, his work has been projected in diverse contexts such as Nuit Blanche Paris, New York Fashion Week, and incorporated into animated sequences in documentaries broadcast on Arte or Netflix. But it is perhaps in his quietest pieces that his language reaches its fullest expression: a work that does not seek to capture attention, but to restore the density of the world.


장줄리앙 푸스는 움직이는 이미지가 더 이상 단순한 매체가 아니라 사유와 존재의 영역이 되는 세대의 예술가에 속한다. 그의 작업은 신체, 기억, 사라짐에 관한 질문을 거쳐, 인터페이스가 만남을 대체하는 세상에서 인간 존재를 탐구한다.

프랑스, 중국, 한국에서 배운 푸는 ‘문턱’의 미학을 펼친다. 그의 영상은 보여주는 것이 아니라 드러낸다. 느림, 떠다님, 정지 상태를 통해 그는 우리 시대의 잠재적 상태를 포착한다. 그의 설치 작품은 종종 몰입적이며, 항상 민감하게 다가간다. 그는 효과를 추구하기보다는 표면을, 즉 보이는 것의 떨림, 시간에 대한 명상에 집중한다.

한국 국립박물관에서 여러 차례 발표된 그의 작품은 <순환> 시리즈가 명상하는 미륵과 대화하며, 유산적 맥락에 자신의 작업을 성공적으로 자리잡았다. 김정희의 작품에서 영감을 받은 <세한의 시간>과 <불모의 정원>은 개인적이고 집합적인 것, 과거와 현재를 엮는 능력을 보여준다.

2025년에는 서울역사박물관의 대형 특별전시회에 유일한 비디오 아티스트로 초청되어, 그의 작품은 한일 수교 60주년을 기념하는 고대 두루마리들과 대화를 나누게 된다. 그는 또한 파리 2024 올림픽을 위한 설치작품 Mouvement으로 수상 후보에 올라 있다.

애니메이션과 시각적 시의 경계에서 그의 작업은 Nuit Blanche Paris, 뉴욕 패션위크와 같은 다양한 컨텍스트에서 상영되었으며, Arte나 Netflix에서 방영된 다큐멘터리의 애니메이션 시퀀스에 통합되기도 했다. 하지만 아마도 그의 가장 조용한 작품에서 그의 언어는 가장 완전한 형태로 펼쳐진다: 주의를 끌려는 것이 아니라 세상의 밀도를 되돌려주는 작업이다.

Jean-Julien Pous appartient à cette génération d’artistes pour qui l’image en mouvement n’est plus un simple médium, mais un territoire de pensée et de présence. Son œuvre — traversée par les questions du corps, de la mémoire et de la disparition — explore la condition humaine dans un monde où l’interface remplace trop souvent la rencontre.

Formé entre la France, la Chine et la Corée, Pous déploie une esthétique du seuil : ses vidéos ne montrent pas, elles révèlent. Par la lenteur, le flottement, la suspension, il capte les états de latence de notre époque. Ses installations — souvent immersives, toujours sensibles — ne cherchent pas l’effet, mais l’affleurement : un tremblement du visible, une méditation sur le temps.

Présenté à plusieurs reprises au Musée National de Corée, où sa série Cycle dialogue avec le Méditant Maitreya, il a su inscrire son travail dans un contexte patrimonial sans céder à la tentation de l’illustration. Winter Times, inspirée de l’œuvre de Kim Jeong-hui, et Barren Garden, réflexion sur le vide fertile, témoignent de cette capacité à tisser l’intime et le collectif, le passé et le présent.

En 2025, il est l’unique artiste vidéo invité à la plus grande exposition temporaire du Musée d’Histoire de Séoul, où ses œuvres dialoguent avec des rouleaux antiques pour marquer les 60 ans des relations diplomatiques Corée-Japon. Son installation Mouvement, conçue pour les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024, est nominée cette année à un prix prestigieux.

À la frontière de l’animation et de la poésie visuelle, son travail a été projeté dans des contextes aussi divers que Nuit Blanche Paris, la New York Fashion Week, ainsi qu’intégré en séquences animées dans des documentaires diffusés sur Arte ou Netflix. Mais c’est peut-être dans ses pièces les plus silencieuses que son langage atteint sa plénitude : une œuvre qui ne cherche pas à capturer l’attention, mais à restituer la densité du monde.


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Awards


Audience Award, Jeju Film Festival, South Korea, 2017
Honorable Mention, Long Rural Category, Arica Nativa, 2017
Best Short Documentary, Toronto Beaches Film Fest, 2017
Best Feature, Be Epic! London International film Festival, 2017
Silver Award, Spotlight Documentary Film Awards, 2017
Jury Prize, 3mn Film Festival, 2016
iF Gold Design Award, 2015
New York Festival Awards - Silver World Medal, 2015
Art Director Club Award, 2015
Red Dot Design Award, 2014
Best Animation, Zuma Film Festival, 2011
Platinum Remi Award, WorldFest Houston, 2009
Young Directors Forum, Meribel, 2009
NPS Best New Arrival, Rotterdam International Film Fesival, 2009
Grand Jury Prize, Foli-O-Skop, Québec, 2008
Jury Prize, Public Prize, FlashLife, France, 2006

Exhibitions


OVNi Festival International d'Art Vidéo, Nice, 2024
Jinju National Museum, 2024
Daejeon Shinsegae Art & Science, 2024
Centre Culturel Coréen, Paris, 2024
Busan Museum, 2024
Cheonggyecheon Museum, Seoul, 2023-2024
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, 2022-2023
Hwaseong City Museum of History, 2022-2023
Busan National Museum, 2022
Jeju National Museum, 2022
Gyeongju National Museum, , 2021-
National Museum of Korea, 2020-
Mairie de Paris Centre, Nuit Blanche, 2021
Leesang Art Gallery, Seoul, 2019
Hangeul Museum, Seoul, 2017
Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, 2016
Asia Hotel Art Fair Seoul, Intercontinental Grand Seoul Parnas, 2016
Kintex Spoon Art Show, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 2016
Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2016
Spoon Art Fair, Hongik University, Seoul, 2015
Asia Hotel Art Fair Seoul, Conrad Hotel, 2015
Art Edition, Marco Polo Hotel, Hong Kong, 2015
Art Space Hue, Paju, South Korea, 2015
Art Edition, Hangaram Museum of Art, Seoul Art Center, 2014
Asia Hotel Art Fair Seoul, Lotte Hotel, 2014
Asia Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong, Marco Polo Hotel, 2014
Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, 2014
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, 2013

Talks/Lectures


3IS Bordeaux, 2022
Beomeo library, Daegu, 2017
Kookmin University, Seoul 2013-2017
ACG, Beijing, 2009
PISAF, Seoul, 2008

Juror


Seoul International Animation Festival, 2017
Seoul International Animation Festival, 2016
Bucheon International Animation Festival, 2015

TV


추사, 파리지앵과 조우하다, MBC, 2024
JTBC Newsroom, 2020
RMC Story, 2020
Arte, 2020
Arte, 2018
80초생각나누기 이어령, KBS, 2010
MTV, 2009
RTP, Portugal, 2009
Culture TV, 2009
Transfera TV, Spain, 2009
Indieroad, USA, 2009
NoLife TV, France, 2009
BeTv, Belgium, 2008
Local Point, WJLA TV, Washington DC, 2008
Propeller TV on SKY channel 195, UK, 2008

Screenings


Festival International Jean Rouch, Inalco, Paris, 2024
Times Square, New York, 2022
Étonnants Randonneurs, France, 2019
Festival Francophone du Film Court de Vaulx-en-Velin, 2018
Jeju French Film Festival, 2018
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, 2018
Barcelona Asian Film Festival, 2017
Jeju Film Festival, 2017
Un poing c'est court, France, 2017
Bosphorus International Film Festival, Turkey, 2017
Arica Nativa, Chile, 2017
Women Over 50 Film Festival, Brighton, 2017
International Film Festival Ekofilm, 2017
Acampadoc, Panamá, 2017
Toronto Beaches Film Fest, 2017
Be Epic! London International Film Fest, 2017
Casa Asia Film Festival, Italy, 2017
Ekotopfilm, 2017
International Documentary festival of Ierapetra, Greece, 2017
Troia Teatro Festival, Italy, 2017
Seoul International NewMedia Festival, 2017
Seoul Green Film Festival, Korea, 2017
3mn Film Festival, Seoul, 2016
Naver TVCast, South Korea, 2015
Finisterra Arrábida Film Art & Tourism Festival, 2014
International Short Tourism Film Festival, Yperia, Greece, 2014
Transborda, Alcobaça, Portugal, 2014
Finisterra Arrábida Film Art & Tourism Festival, 2013
New Zealand International Film Festival, 2013
Kinø 132 / Folie-Ô-Skop, Québec, 2012
Urban Film Festival, 104, Paris, 2013
The Veggie Table, Beijing, 2013
Festival du Film d'Environnement, France, 2012
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spectrum shorts, 2011
oneDotZero, United Kingdom, 2010
Zuma Film Festival, Nigeria, 2010
Cyber Sousa-Xiamen International Animation Festival, 2010
Culture Unplugged Festival Spirit Enlightened We speak here, 2010
Animafest Zagreb, 2010
Festival Int. du Film d'Environnement, 2010
NERVO International Video Art Screening, Portugal, 2010
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spectrum shorts, 2009
Platinum Remi Awards, WorldFest Huston, 2009
Laureate, Young Directors Forum, Meribel, 2009
Cancun Film Festival, 2009
China Cristal Awards, Dubai & Saõ Paulo, 2009
Cannes Film Festival, ShortfilmCorner, France, 2009
Le Cube, France, 2009
Folie-Ô-Skop, Québec, 2009
Moves09, Manchester, UK
Nemo, Forum des Images, Paris, 2009
Cinequest / Maverick, USA, 2009
Kan Film Festival, Poland, 2009
Breda International Film Festival, the Netherlands, 2009
Anima, Belgium, 2009
Future Film Festival, Italy, 2009
Slamdance, USA, 2009
Dailymotion, La Séance, France, 2009
Galerie Chappe, France, 2009
Animated Dreams - Tallin Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2008
PISAF, South Korea, 2008
Take-2 International Student Film Festival, Ireland, 2008
Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2008
Passau Film festival, Germany, 2008
Contravision, Germany, 2008
Freedom Of Choice, Portugal Turkey Armenia Italy, 2008
Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2008
Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2008
CICDAF, China, 2008
Montreal World Film Festival, 2008
onedotzero, UK, 2008
Galerie Chappe / Les Producers, Paris, France, 2008
HDFest, Los Angeles, 2008
K Barré, Mercure Liquide, 2008
Kinø-Matane, complexe culturel Joseph-Rouleau, Québec, 2008
Tehran International Shortfilm Festival, 2008
Freedom Of Choice, Portugal / Turkey / Armenia / Italy
New Zealand IFF, 2008
Sitges, Spain, 2008
Court métrange, Rennes, France, 2008
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2008
Courts des Grands, 2008
Finalist, Babelgum Online Film Festival, 2008
Web Flash Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2008
Anifest, Czech Republic, 2008
Animafest, Zagreb, 2008
Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2008
Australian International Animation Festival, 2008
ShortFest, UK, 2008
Australian Premiere, Byron Bay Film Festival, 2008
US Premiere, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, 2008
Digitartisti, Milano, 2007
Future Film Festival, Italy, 2008
E-magiciens, France, 2007
Finalist, View conference, Italy, 2007
Glimz, Sweden, 2007
Festival du film court de Villeurbanne, France, 2007
CICDAF, Changzhou, China, 2007


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