Eri Maeda is a Japanese visual artist based in Paris, where she develops a unique sculptural practice by working with stoneware using traditional hand-shaping techniques. Her works, characterized by surreal forms and glazes in vibrant hues, explore notions of shame, taboos, and gendered expectations inherited from her upbringing.

Through her sculptures, Maeda reinterprets everyday objects, transforming them into strange hybrids, akin to fantastical creatures, playing on the ambiguity between the familiar and the unsettling. Her approach oscillates between humor and social critique, questioning the unspoken norms that govern culture and the perception of domestic symbols. By subverting them, she imbues them with a subversive charge, revealing the underlying tensions between constraint and emancipation.

Exhibited in cities such as Milan, London and Tokyo, her work resonates far beyond cultural boundaries, raising universal questions about identity, the invisible forces that shape it and the power dynamics that are exercised through everyday objects.