ART SG Singapour 2026: Shiori Eda｜Booth FC01

concept

I consider language to be a kind of mythology, and it is difficult to explain my work in simple words.

The root of my work is a sense of tracing the unconscious that cannot be verbalized.  I want to depict the overwhelming sense of emptiness and helplessness of people in relation to nature by exposing and reconstructing what has been hidden by the complexity of human society.

When we look at the situation of naked people in nature, we can see how weak people are, and how their weakness is their strength. Under the miraculous environment that the earth has created by chance, and because there is a symbolic relationship between objects like the moon and the sun, which is well expressed in the nature of language, human beings tend to fall into opposing ways of thinking.

I would like to expose the environment that each of us encompasses, the human creature, human society, nature, the earth, and the universe, to eliminate the boundaries between each to the utmost limit, and to see something that can never be explained by opposites. My own cells are also changing from moment to moment, inorganic and organic, artificial and natural, the boundaries between them and their definitions are ambiguous when you get down to it, and although there are rules, they are all exceptions, and I can lump meanings together in words, or even my own enclosure, depending on whether I value the similarities outside or inside the enclosure, or the differences, It seems to me that it is the difference between the number of differences and the number of commonalities. It also becomes unclear whether life is just the difference between inside and outside the enclosure. It could be that everything is the same, or it could be that everything is different. we are bystanders, and we are confronted with the environment, and the nude people who have abandoned their concepts appear to be part of nature.
When seen from all angles, they are nothing but contradictions, and I would like to trace the unconsciousness that cannot be put simply in such a way through expression.
This time in some of my works, I have expressed time by depicting ruins left by humans culture, seems they too are part of nature.

Technic

My works are fundamentally made using the classical oil painting technique of grisaille, with many thin layers of colours.

The paint matirial used are highly transparent, so even when multiple layers are applied, the underlying image is visible, allowing for the expression of atmospheric sensations.