Perhaps you’ve seen Jesse Kanda’s visceral gothic surrealist art for iconic artists like Björk, FKA twigs, and Arca. His work often includes otherworldly 3D animations in the shape of photo and video that twist and contort into deformed shapes. “The inside our body is way more beautiful than the skin that coats it, yet we’re afraid of it. Whenever you see blood or organs, you sense pain and danger,” Kanda said in his 2016 Dazed 100 interview.
Whenever you see Kanda’s art you possibly can’t help but take into consideration his perception of beauty, it’s a spectrum of emotion often metamorphosed pain into beauty. The Japanese-born, Canadian raised self-taught artist combines his unfamiliarities and influences into his art while unafraid of exploring...
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