SHIORI EDA

‘I favour the word ‘森羅万象’, Shinra Bansho, and I know how powerful words can be. However, to be honest, it is hard to explain my paintings. And I think words are sometimes violent.’

Shinra Bansho signifies in English ‘everything that exists in the universe’ it is in a kind of gestalt* that Shiori Eda, unveils to us in Gone with the Wind, a metaphysical dialogue among speech, words, and substances. This all-encompassing life seems to be in motion like the wind, an omnipotent creation modulating the elements.

These substances in her paintings are simultaneously organic and inert, artificial and natural. These solitary bodies are only aggregates of cells moving like words with particular ease. Shiori Eda now works in France, of Japanese origin, not knowing well the local language, more gives her more degrees of certain freedom in her life and in her creation.

‘Even if you basically just draw the outline of a painting, it becomes a different painting. Words are like that; the outline can make things different and make things stand out and explain things to a wider audience.’

It would be a mingle between figuration and surrealism towards a certain romanticism. Shiori Eda approaches in her paintings a vision of the human being facing nature and often magnificently disturbing moments. The idea of the sublime invades us at the sight of these hanging paintings. This white veil seems to float like words and concepts. Floating, which are finally only vibrations of sounds useful for everyday communication.

‘In other words, confining the meaning to the words, or putting boundaries between each world, or even the enclosure in which I find myself will change according to whether one insists on the commonalities with the environment or on the differences.

Who you are is only as many differences and commonalities as you have with those around you .’

A painting made to recondition the world? A silent but powerfully universal painting. Gone with the Wind is poetry traversed by a time where the human condition contrasts and harmonizes with a dreadful nature, a metaphor for our infinitesimally.

Gestalt*

Gestalt is a humanistic and existential approach that integrates how we create meaning and existence in the present moment, that is to say, the totality of our body, our thoughts, and our emotions.