Yuree Kensaku - Le Mont Never-Rest

Galerie 75 Faubourg, in collaboration with Galerie Enrico Navarra, is pleased to present Le Mont Never-Rest, the first solo exhibition in France by Yuree Kensaku.

Born in 1979 in Bangkok, Yuree Kensaku is a Japanese-Thai artist whose dynamic imagination, inspired by anime and manga, explores the tension between playful aesthetics and deep social critique. “My work is a record of my thoughts and encounters, a patchwork of fragmented visual language,” the artist writes. Her stories intertwine reality and fiction, imagination and memory. Her works often employ a colorful, pop visual language to address complex themes, ranging from environmental issues and political unrest to philosophical questions and the darker aspects of human behavior.

Obstacles are a central theme. Echoing the Buddhist cycles of past lives and rebirths, reincarnation unfolds like a video game. Each stage of life presents itself as a new challenge: facing a “boss,” failing, starting over, succeeding, then moving on to the next level.

Shaped by a year of fragile health—surgeries, treatments, lifestyle changes—Kensaku has conceived a new body of work in which the French mountains rise as symbols of obstacles to overcome. In these paintings, the artist depicts herself through multiple avatars: at times replacing the serpent on Asclepius’ rod, at times as a goldfish, a scorpion, a boxer, or a bodybuilder. “My figures are not always self-portraits but reflections in a mirror—sometimes of myself, sometimes of others, always in transformation. Everything changes, nothing lasts.” These metamorphoses evoke the impermanence of existence, where identity is in constant flux.