Julia Jesionek
animation
Academy of media arts cologne
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Animation / Painting / Drawing
My location: Cologne, Germany
Julia Jesionek
First Name: Julia
Last Name: Jesionek
University / College: Academy of media arts cologne
Course / Program: animation
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Animation / Painting / Drawing
My Location: Cologne, Germany
Website: Click To See Website
About
Julia
Jesionek was born in 1998 in Gifhorn, Germany. She recently graduated from the Academy
of Media Arts Cologne, where she started out working with photography and video
art
but quickly discovered her interest in animated drawings and painting. Her work
mainly focuses on the topics of body and sexuality as well as associative,
tream-of-consciousness storytelling
that is often derived from personal experience.
Everythingness is an autofictional animated short film about the transformative power of difficult decisions, inner conflicts and guilt. In a colorful chaos of ambivalence and brushstrokes, the protagonist embarks on her journey in search of reliable truths. When she encounters her alter-ego, she realizes that she cannot even trust her own reflection – in fact – especially not her. The film is made with acrylics on paper, using both regular brushes and paint as well as an airbrush. For my graduation show I chose to embed the film within an immersive installation that brought elements from the film into the real world in the form of papermaché sculptures.
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