Fluid Silhouettes

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NO NYC producer Arca has teamed up with London director Jesse Kanda for this hypnotic melting pot of a video in collaboration with SSENSE. Continuing on his ever-abstract sound trajectory, Arca’s “Fluid Silhouettes” shifts about hyperactively but always in sync with the inky bodies on screen. Kanda, the man behind videos for Maison Martin Margiela and FKA Twigs works his signature fluid touch, as his genderless, mutating figures give a nod to fashion’s recent obsession with androgyny.
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Designer clothing retailer SSENSE presents another formless composition from experimental electronic artist Arca that will leave you scratching your head. Set to some equally amorphous, “WTF”-inducing visuals from Jesse Kanda, “Fluid Silhouettes” is a real trip, nobly blurring gender lines, but coming off just a bit creepy all the same.
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In 2013, Arca was busy. The extremely left-field producer worked heavily on both Kanye West’s Yeezus and FKA Twigs’ EP, plus his own mixtape, &&&&&–a cacophony of forward-thinking beats and, well, sounds that blew many peoples’ minds all over their faces.

Visual artist and director, Jesse Kanda, is equally out-there, and his work with Arca has yielded some reality-bending collaborations, such as the “Water Me” video for Twigs (where she gets mutated into a cross between cartoon and human), which The Creators Project called one of our favorite music videos of the year.

The two artists also took over MoMA PS1’s VW Dome during one of the museum’s Sunday Sessions events, which was equal parts weird and mesmerizing due to how foreign the sounds and visuals were. Their work is so unique that it’s confusing–you can feel your brain turning while processing this odd creativity.

Yesterday, they both unveiled a new collaboration for clothing brand SSENSE called “Fluid Silhouettes,” a video piece in which genderless bodies mutate and shift into “abstract translations of key men’s and womenswear silhouettes.” SSENSE explained that this work captures its upcoming collection’s “forward-looking take on adrogyny.” Whether the clothes are actually forward-looking remains to be seen, but it’s undeniable that Arca and Jesse Kanda are taking the fashion video somewhere new.

Arca and Kanda bring the avant-garde into mass culture with this brand collaboration (not dissimilar to Yeezus), and we’ll undoubtedly keep an eye on their future work. Watch the clip above and embrace the perplexity.
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Jesse Kanda is a director of a digital age. Coming from a background in 3D design and animation, he often incorporates new technology in his films to create unique hyper-real pictures.
Following online success with his short film Dutch Wife (later picked up by Channel 4), he quickly garnered attention within the fashion and music industries. He has since worked on projects for forward-thinking clients like Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela, Preen, BLK DNM, UNO NYC and Hippos In Tanks. Most recently, Jesse has created heart-stopping music videos for Twigs (“How’s That”), Arca (“Ass Swung Low”) and the album launch film “The Golden Age” for Woodkid.