Utsuroi it is a Japanese term linked to change, to transformation.
Indica a gradual and inevitable change, the transition from one state to another; can also refer to the reflection or projection of one element onto another. Both meanings refer back to a sense of impermanence, reminding us that nothing is truly stable and everything is ephemeral.
Transience it is used to describe landscapes and the changing of the seasons, or those threshold moments when an event is coming to an end, such as the falling of leaves in autumn or the fading of light at the end of the day. But it is also a deeply rooted principle in Japanese architecture and culture, a space-time concept that blurs the boundary between the self and the surrounding environment.
In December 2025, the new Sicilcima showroom in Catania at via Scuto Costarelli 47 is hosting the annual installation designed by Makoto Fukuda with the male and female students of the course of Exhibition Design.
Japanese spaces are often designed to allow people to observe, perceive and enjoy the forms through which change manifests itself: Utsuroi celebrates this approach by bringing it into the showroom a series of organic elements suspended from the ceiling, light and mobile, whose movement evokes the ineluctable delicacy of the transformations that mark the rhythms of natural cycles.
With this intervention, Abadir consolidates the research path initiated with Sicilcima in 2020, interpreting the showroom not only as an exhibition space but as a narrative environment. Transience thus becoming a poetic device capable of expressing the brand's identity, building an experience that unites design culture, interdisciplinarity, territorial contamination and critical thinking.
The installation will remain open to visitors throughout the Christmas holiday period and until 16 January 2026.
Acknowledgements:
engineer Luca Bonaccorsi (for the lighting and movement programming) and Indortech (for the construction of the technological systems).