Mono No Aware
Auction House
Redruth, UK
05.11.21 - 14.11.21
detail from Landslip, St Wite
In Mono No Aware, an exhibition of new works, artist Jonathan Michael Ray makes use of a
wide range of past and present-time objects, material and processes, brought together in
strangely familiar modes of display. The result is assemblage in many forms, including video,
print, stained glass, drawing and sculpture. The title of the show translates as “the pathos of
things”: a Japanese term for an awareness of, and gentle sadness for the transient quality of
life.
Ray’s work in this installation is inspired by ideas of sacred spaces: including churches, historic
sites, nature and museum collections, and considers the journeys and pilgrimages we all make
in our lives. His work alludes to the sublime power that inanimate material and objects can
contain when we give them space, time and authority to do so.
Read the exhibition text Hidden Voices by Martin Holman here
At the Root, 2020
HD Video, colour and sound
13m22s
Sound by Benedict Mortimer