Mono no Aware, 2023
Between December 2019 and August 2020, Pierre-Élie de Pibrac embarks on a journey to Japan that will give life to two series, Hakanai Sonzai and Mono no Aware. While the use of color and the subjects chosen may at first seem to oppose each other, the two series should be read as mirrors of each other: Hakanai Sonzai means “I feel myself to be an ephemeral creature”, while the concept of Mono no Aware should be understood as the emotion that seizes us when faced with inanimate objects or transitory nature. It delicately underlines the fragility of things and their melancholy, attempting to capture their essence, it tends to show, through the specific, a collective aesthetic and ideology that is unique to Japan.
Mono no Aware
The impenetrable enigma of landscapes and objects is captured in the deep black-and-white of Mono no Aware, which completes the Hakanai Sonzai series.
The haiku-like landscapes celebrate nature in all its beauty and power. Untamed and mystical, nature reminds man of his own inconsistency as much as it reveals the transitory state of all things.
The objects and buildings, all abandoned by man, bear witness to a bygone age. They contain memories of a life, of moments that are no longer, and never will be again.
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