SHIORI EDA

In Cast Aside Words, Shiori Eda reflects on what remains when we move beyond language and return to direct experience. Through a series of paintings that balance dreamlike imagery with moments of quiet contemplation, the artist invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to feeling, memory, and understanding.

The exhibition unfolds across two interconnected themes. On the ground floor, a series of paintings contemplates gravity and focuses on the physical experience of existence. Gravity is an invisible force that constantly anchors us. For Eda, it becomes a way of reconnecting with our bodies and our place in the world. On the first floor is a series that depicts human relationships, records, and documents. For Eda, these records don’t always depict reality, which is precisely why they can sometimes lead to mistakes. She examines humanity’s reliance on records, narratives, and systems of knowledge, questioning the distance that can emerge between reality and its representation.

Across both chapters, Eda’s works encourage a slower, more intuitive way of engaging with the world. Rather than offering fixed meanings, her paintings create spaces for reflection, allowing viewers to navigate between sensation and interpretation, presence and memory.

At its heart, Cast Aside Words asks a simple yet fundamental question: what does it mean to truly feel, before we attempt to explain, define, or understand?