GALLERY

Le sentiment des choses

The French poet Jacques Roubaud rendered Japanese mono no aware, the nostalgic feeling of impermanence, as "le sentiment des choses" ("the feeling of things").

He sees it as a sign of “the harmony that exists between the spirit and the form of things.

This harmony and feeling are at the heart of the gallery, which is articulated above all through connections, resonances and dialogues: those that weave between the ancient and the contemporary, the passage of time and permanence, East and West, humility and refinement, the unique object and the everyday.

It is a co-creation with the artists, visitors, clients, and anonymous people who left us these objects, a place for transmission and sharing.

Japan and ceramics occupy a central place, with works both ancient and contemporary, but paper, ink, wood and stone are also given pride of place. We explore traces, textures, the marks of time, the simplicity of wabi, the everydayness of mingei.