SEAXIA, Led by Yuka Miyazaki, to Hold First Solo Exhibition 'Digestion / DIGESTION' in Daikanyama from May 21
SEAXIA, led by food and prop stylist Yuka Miyazaki, will hold its first solo exhibition, 'Digestion / DIGESTION,' at ZAspace Daikanyama for four days starting May 21, 2026. The exhibition features table installations themed around human body structures.
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SEAXIA, led by food and prop stylist YUKA MIYAZAKI, will hold its first solo exhibition "Digestion / DIGESTION" for 4 days from Thursday, May 21 to Sunday, May 24, 2026, at ZAspace Daikanyama. This exhibition centers around five table installations themed on the components that make up the human body: "Skin, Fat, Spine, Brain, and Blood." We will also be selling an art book and limited-edition merchandise that capture the worldview of this exhibition.
[Images clockwise from top left: Skin / Fat / Spine / Blood / Brain...]
Overview of "Digestion / DIGESTION"
Dates: Thursday, May 21 – Sunday, May 24, 2026
Opening Hours:
- Thu/Fri (5/21, 5/22): 13:00 – 21:00 (Last entry 20:30)
- Sat (5/23): 11:00 – 19:30 (Last entry 19:00)
- Sun (5/24): 11:00 – 17:30 (Last entry 17:00)
Venue: ZAspace Daikanyama (zaHOUSE 5F, 1-34-17 Ebisu Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021)
Admission: Free
■ Planning Background and Concept
Now that well-being has become a social interest, our physical management is saturated with "prescriptions from the outside." Sleep scores, nutrition tracking, and optimized lifestyles. Generative AI can even design food visuals and suggest recipes.
Even if it can be generated, it cannot be digested.
No matter how precisely it is prescribed, the processes of eating, breaking down, becoming flesh and blood, and expressing thoughts and emotions still belong entirely to the body.
For 14 years, Yuka Miyazaki has worked carefully as a food stylist to "make food look beautiful" for audiences across screens in advertising, magazines, and brand catalogs. This exhibition was born from a self-interrogation of that profession.
— From food meant to be seen, to food meant to be felt. —
■ Two Meanings Within "Digestion / DIGESTION"
Two meanings overlap in "Digestion." "Biological digestion," where what we eat becomes flesh and blood, and "mental digestion," where we chew on thoughts and emotions and assimilate them as our own. Through the primitive perceptions of touch, sight, taste, and smell, this is an attempt to reclaim the "outline of oneself" that can neither be quantified nor optimized.
■ "Tables of the Body" Expressing 5 Themes
The phenomenon of shaping the body by eating, and the process of chewing on thoughts and emotions. The circulation born between these is broken down into 5 themes, constructing each table.
By fusing "edibles" like lizard-shaped gummies and meringue with "non-edibles" like props transformed with studs, lamination, and compression bags, they function as devices to shake up categorized modern values. We have also prepared an experience where you can actually taste a part of the exhibited artworks.
- Skin: Ambiguous layers stacking translucent materials and jelly-like textures. Expresses the boundary between showing and hiding.
- Fat: Elastic textures and the endearment of excess. A space that affirms hoarding and having blank spaces.
- Spine: Stacking hard materials, expressing the quiet strength of supporting and enduring.
- Brain: The floating sensation and uncertainty at the moment thoughts emerge. A space encapsulating the value of what wells up from within oneself.
- Blood: A circulation where what is eaten circulates as power. Both momentum and stagnation are entirely a part of life.
■ Sale of Art Book and Limited Original Merchandise
In addition to the first art book capturing the worldview of this exhibition, which took over a year to produce, we will be selling a wide lineup at the venue including apparel (T-shirts, sweatshirts), food-motif plush toys, an acrylic charm capsule toy machine, stickers, and one-of-a-kind art pieces. (*Contents are subject to change.)
[Food-motif plush toy keychains: 9 types, from 4,400 yen (tax included)]
[Studded bowl: 33,000 yen (tax included)]
■ Crowdfunding Implementation for Art Book Production
From Wednesday, April 15 to Wednesday, May 13, 2026, we will implement crowdfunding with a goal of 1 million yen to support the production costs of the art book. For supporters, the main return will be an "art book with numbering," and we will also offer consultation rights for food & prop styling by Miyazaki.
[Images clockwise from top left: Skin / Fat / Spine / Blood / Brain...]
Overview of "Digestion / DIGESTION"
Dates: Thursday, May 21 – Sunday, May 24, 2026
Opening Hours:
- Thu/Fri (5/21, 5/22): 13:00 – 21:00 (Last entry 20:30)
- Sat (5/23): 11:00 – 19:30 (Last entry 19:00)
- Sun (5/24): 11:00 – 17:30 (Last entry 17:00)
Venue: ZAspace Daikanyama (zaHOUSE 5F, 1-34-17 Ebisu Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021)
Admission: Free
■ Planning Background and Concept
Now that well-being has become a social interest, our physical management is saturated with "prescriptions from the outside." Sleep scores, nutrition tracking, and optimized lifestyles. Generative AI can even design food visuals and suggest recipes.
Even if it can be generated, it cannot be digested.
No matter how precisely it is prescribed, the processes of eating, breaking down, becoming flesh and blood, and expressing thoughts and emotions still belong entirely to the body.
For 14 years, Yuka Miyazaki has worked carefully as a food stylist to "make food look beautiful" for audiences across screens in advertising, magazines, and brand catalogs. This exhibition was born from a self-interrogation of that profession.
— From food meant to be seen, to food meant to be felt. —
■ Two Meanings Within "Digestion / DIGESTION"
Two meanings overlap in "Digestion." "Biological digestion," where what we eat becomes flesh and blood, and "mental digestion," where we chew on thoughts and emotions and assimilate them as our own. Through the primitive perceptions of touch, sight, taste, and smell, this is an attempt to reclaim the "outline of oneself" that can neither be quantified nor optimized.
■ "Tables of the Body" Expressing 5 Themes
The phenomenon of shaping the body by eating, and the process of chewing on thoughts and emotions. The circulation born between these is broken down into 5 themes, constructing each table.
By fusing "edibles" like lizard-shaped gummies and meringue with "non-edibles" like props transformed with studs, lamination, and compression bags, they function as devices to shake up categorized modern values. We have also prepared an experience where you can actually taste a part of the exhibited artworks.
- Skin: Ambiguous layers stacking translucent materials and jelly-like textures. Expresses the boundary between showing and hiding.
- Fat: Elastic textures and the endearment of excess. A space that affirms hoarding and having blank spaces.
- Spine: Stacking hard materials, expressing the quiet strength of supporting and enduring.
- Brain: The floating sensation and uncertainty at the moment thoughts emerge. A space encapsulating the value of what wells up from within oneself.
- Blood: A circulation where what is eaten circulates as power. Both momentum and stagnation are entirely a part of life.
■ Sale of Art Book and Limited Original Merchandise
In addition to the first art book capturing the worldview of this exhibition, which took over a year to produce, we will be selling a wide lineup at the venue including apparel (T-shirts, sweatshirts), food-motif plush toys, an acrylic charm capsule toy machine, stickers, and one-of-a-kind art pieces. (*Contents are subject to change.)
[Food-motif plush toy keychains: 9 types, from 4,400 yen (tax included)]
[Studded bowl: 33,000 yen (tax included)]
■ Crowdfunding Implementation for Art Book Production
From Wednesday, April 15 to Wednesday, May 13, 2026, we will implement crowdfunding with a goal of 1 million yen to support the production costs of the art book. For supporters, the main return will be an "art book with numbering," and we will also offer consultation rights for food & prop styling by Miyazaki.