Exhibit Design / Pavilion Design
Project name | Mono no aware: The Pavilion of the transitory sadness
(Mono no aware: O Pavilhão da tristeza transitória)
Date | 2021
Author | Christiana Vieira
mono no aware is a Japanese expression first used in the 11th century during the Heian period.
It expresses the awareness of impermanence; a blueness towards the end; a resignation facing
the brevity of life; the eternal transience of things.
Human beings are exposed to this feeling at least a few times during their lives, and some more
than others. These moments usually echo equally uneasiness, beauty and resignation.
Mono no aware represents the gentle sadness one feels after comprehending this mutant state of life.
The conscience of transience remains at a beautiful view because
We are the children of a sick, dirty world, yes
But the remains of beauty we also possess
Touched by the dirt, but not its origin
We are the children of beauty.
- The Author
Content description
The Pavilion of the transitory sadness reunites three written oeuvres and four
movies that transmit the mono no aware feeling to the viewer. Throughout
the parcours, the user comprehends this nostalgic and melancholic
feeling, seeing it through celebrated oeuvres.
Elevations
“Towards the end of the Second Month, the festival of the cherry blossoms took place in the Grand Hall.
The empress and the crown prince were seated to the left and right of the throne. This arrangement of course
displeased Kokiden, but she put in an appearance all the same, unable to let such an occasion pass. It was a beautiful day. The sky was clear, birds were singing. I have drawn Spring, said Genji.”
displeased Kokiden, but she put in an appearance all the same, unable to let such an occasion pass. It was a beautiful day. The sky was clear, birds were singing. I have drawn Spring, said Genji.”
- Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji.
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful.
If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
- Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
Plan views
Section
The transitory character of the pavilion is not limited to the mono no aware feeling. The exposition is itinerant, and should travel to several locations. Due to this fact, the assembly was thought to be simple and direct
Only Yesterday projection on the pavilion
