“The eerie strangeness comes to you when something comes to us as real”
-Lucian Freud
“The eerie strangeness comes to you when something comes to us as real”
-Lucian Freud
Hakanai Sonzai means “I myself feel an ephemeral creature”, this project carried out in Japan between December 2019 and August 2020, tells the story of individuals who seek to understand their identity in the face of the weight of the rules of the society in which they evolve.
In Japan, Mono no Aware represents the sensibility for the ephemeral, the vanity and the impermanence of all things.