Mono No Aware

Artist list

Yanli Duan, Patrik Graf, Yiping Li, Xiao Liu, Jasmin Matzakow, Regina Rupp, Jieyi Sun, Jingwen Tai, Takayoshi Terajima, Yanqi Wang

The theme of the Mono No Aware Aesthetics exhibition originates in a Japanese aesthetic concept.

Jewelry is a way to reflect the heart of things and jewelry making is a process to re-recognize the material and the nature of things. Through hand making, the materials become art works integrated with the artist on the spiritual level.

On the other hand, materials are not solid or stable but fluid and changeable. Controlling things by heart/ transformation circumstance/changing with heart, in the process of feeling the sadness of beauty and process from misery to joy, the sadness of beauty can be a kind of yinian transformation as well (Yinian is a spiritual state from consciousness to belief.), which generates magical power to provide people with hope.