Suzume Uchida Exhibition
Sai
Until Dec 26
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Suzume Uchida
SAI presents Suzume Uchida’s solo exhibition As You Truly Are, on view from 6 December to 26 December 2025.
This is her first solo show in approximately two years since her 2023 exhibition at “NEW,” and the largest presentation of her work to date. Uchida has long depicted an inner memoryscape etched deep within the mind, almost as if documenting it.
Through painting, she continues to give form to the sorrow and anxiety inherent in living, as well as the hope and quiet joy that emerge beyond those emotions.
From childhood, painting had been Uchida's greatest joy, yet she grew up keeping this passion locked deep within her heart. Living with an unconscious denial of her own existence, the world around her felt filled with confusion and pain. Unable to find her place in society, she eventually left her job. Then one day, in the midst of profound loneliness, she found herself guided back to the paintbrush, and began painting as if releasing the emotions buried within her. Facing painting became, for Uchida, an act of confronting her own formative experiences—an act that often carried deep pain. Yet the works created through that process, unadorned and sincere, have resonated with viewers again and again.
In As You Truly Are, Uchida presents new works shaped by the emotional shifts she experienced through giving birth and becoming a mother. Once someone who had wished to “disappear,” she now reflects on the doubts and conflicts that surfaced when she conceived life and confronted the biological reality of passing on her genes. The exhibition explores these tensions, the new emotions awakened by having a child, and the renewed gaze she casts upon her past self. What is life? What does it mean to live? We invite you to enter this quiet, symbolic world, where a fragile light gently illuminates the depths of human existence.
This is her first solo show in approximately two years since her 2023 exhibition at “NEW,” and the largest presentation of her work to date. Uchida has long depicted an inner memoryscape etched deep within the mind, almost as if documenting it.
Through painting, she continues to give form to the sorrow and anxiety inherent in living, as well as the hope and quiet joy that emerge beyond those emotions.
From childhood, painting had been Uchida's greatest joy, yet she grew up keeping this passion locked deep within her heart. Living with an unconscious denial of her own existence, the world around her felt filled with confusion and pain. Unable to find her place in society, she eventually left her job. Then one day, in the midst of profound loneliness, she found herself guided back to the paintbrush, and began painting as if releasing the emotions buried within her. Facing painting became, for Uchida, an act of confronting her own formative experiences—an act that often carried deep pain. Yet the works created through that process, unadorned and sincere, have resonated with viewers again and again.
In As You Truly Are, Uchida presents new works shaped by the emotional shifts she experienced through giving birth and becoming a mother. Once someone who had wished to “disappear,” she now reflects on the doubts and conflicts that surfaced when she conceived life and confronted the biological reality of passing on her genes. The exhibition explores these tensions, the new emotions awakened by having a child, and the renewed gaze she casts upon her past self. What is life? What does it mean to live? We invite you to enter this quiet, symbolic world, where a fragile light gently illuminates the depths of human existence.
Schedule Now in session | Dec 6 (Sat) 2025-Dec 26 (Fri) 2025 12 days left Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Website | https://www.saiart.jp/exhibition/exhibition36/index.html | ||
| Venue | Sai http://www.saiart.jp/ | ||
| Location | 3F Rayard Miyashita Park South, 6-20-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 | ||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit B1 at Shibuya Station on the Fukutoshin, Hanzomon, Tokyu Den-en-toshi or Tokyu Toyoko line, 4 minute walk from the Miyamasuzaka exit of JR Shibuya Station. | ||
| Phone | 03-6712-5706 | ||
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