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Yuichi Saito

1984 - Japan

Contemporaries

Yuichi Saito has developed an artistic practice deeply influenced by the world of popular Japanese television. Since joining Kobe Shu's studio in Saitama in the early 2000s, he has explored these cultural references through writing and drawing, meticulously reproducing program titles with repeated gestures. Over time, this approach has transcended legibility, evolving into highly abstract compositions imbued with a powerful expressive force.

More recently, Saito has focused his research on the hiragana character "mo," whose repetition becomes a vehicle for intimate emotional variations. This character goes beyond its linguistic function: its form, repetition, and graphic rhythm become vehicles for emotion. "Mo" can thus be interpreted as a sound, a gesture, and a trace, the accumulation of which suggests persistence, variation, and Saito's inner state.

Her work has been presented in several international institutional settings, notably at MONA in Tasmania as part of the Museum of Everything, and at La Maison Rouge in Paris during its closing exhibition. In 2021, a selection of her works entered the collections of the Centre Pompidou.

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