The Mono-ha was a group of artists who worked with natural and artificial objects in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The aim was to let ‘things’ speak for themselves by allowing them to exist as much as possible in their works in their original state, in parallel. Therefore, rather than ‘creating’ something, the artists of the Mono-ha reconstructed ‘things’ and created works that focused on the interdependent relationship between ‘things’ and space.
By presenting mainly natural materials such as wood and stone and neutral materials such as paper and iron in an almost unprocessed state, they attempted to explore the relationship between subject and object, freeing themselves from the division between them. In a sense, it is a rejection of civilisation.