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Jesse Kanda (born June 23, 1987)[1] is an artist, animator and musician based in London. He was born in Japan and raised in Canada. Besides his solo career as an artist and musician, he has collaborated with musicians including Arca, FKA Twigs and Björk as well as providing visuals for fashion label Hood By Air.[2]
Early life
Kanda partly grew up in Japan.[3] Since age 13, Kanda has shared his work online with the advent of artistic social networks deviantArt.com and mp3.com in the early 2000s. He met musician Arca "on a DeviantArt forum when Kanda was 15 and Arca was 13."[4]
Work
Common themes in Kanda's work have been growth, decay, death, freedom, fantasy, empathy, dream, innocence, subconscious, sexuality, sensuality, pain, suffering, euphoria, the body, movement, and magic.[5]
Kanda often employs a balance of aesthetic beauty and the grotesque. Juxtaposing life and death; or love and fear. Although he is mostly known for his sculptural mixed media images, animations and music, he has also ventured into traditional filmmaking, sculpture, fashion, painting and photography.[5]
His figures often exist in a dream-like spatial environment, often disfigured but with a sense of empathy and strength. His visual works are sometimes inspired by internal body parts, and Kanda admits "The inside of our body is much more beautiful than the skin that coats it, yet we're afraid of it." He transforms painful organ-looking heuristics into aesthetic visual pieces.[3]
He has often used the music video as his artistic medium. Either creating the music himself, or collaborating with close friends.Template:Cn In 2020 he provided visuals for beauty company Byredo.[6]
Awards
Kanda was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package during the 57th edition of the event (2015) for FKA Twigs' debut studio album LP1.[7]
Exhibitions and performances
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- TRAUMA – MoMA PS1 (2013)
- Various live shows with Arca (2013–2017)
- Solo exhibition and musical performance London Corsica Studios (2017)
- Solo exhibition and musical performance Tokyo Liquid Room (2017)
- Solo exhibition and musical performance Kyoto Metro (2017)
Discography
Albums
EPs
- Heart (2017)
- Luna (2018)
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jessica Canjemanaden, Jesse Kanda on the beauty of organs, loneliness, and new album Labyrinth, Dazeddigital.com, 29 November 2019
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