Collection: Asato

ASATO grew up in Japan practising Nichiren-Shoshu. He was always surrounded by beautiful things such as Buddhist religious sculptures. However, he believes his imagination was born in an environment where dissonance, created by negative human emotions. In graduate school this drove him towards Freud's and Nietzsche's philosophies, interweaving his own experience and exploring the affirmation of trauma and the value of imperfections. For him, art is a ritual that sublimates the pain of life into elegance.