In a world that demands clarity, Yufi reminds us of the beauty of uncertainty — of what lives quietly between light and memory.
In her first solo exhibition at Sato Gallery, Yufi invites us into a space suspended between consciousness and subconsciousness, a liminal state where memories, dreams, and sensations merge.
Autodidact and free-spirited, Yufi paints from intuition more than from intention. Her practice moves fluidly between the visible and the invisible, translating emotions that cannot be expressed into gradients of color and light.
Her works oscillate between loneliness and comfort, fog and glow, like the hazy recollection of a place that may have existed only in a dream. Her palette of soft purples, warm yellows, and deep blues evokes the landscapes of her past: the sunset skies of California and the delicate light of Japan.
Of Japanese, Korean, American, and Russian heritage through her roots and education, Yufi has always existed in between, between cultures, languages, and ways of seeing. This sense of in-betweenness becomes a quiet strength in her art: the figures she paints seem to float between worlds, as if embodying her own borderless identity.
In a time when we are constantly asked to take sides — to define ourselves, to choose one over another — Yufi’s work offers a gentle resistance. It reminds us of the beauty of uncertainty and the poetry of what cannot be defined.
Her paintings offer a rare kind of stillness, a place to dwell, to remember, and to feel.
They ask us to stay a little longer in that gentle fog,
where memories blur, and consciousness begins to dream.
Practical Information
Sato Gallery — 58 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
Exhibition : November 28th – December 20th
Opening Hours : Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–7pm (closed Sunday & Monday)
Free admission by reservation