Cloudy to Clear, a Hint of Breeze

SOOFA SUHE is pleased to present Cloudy to Clear, a Hint of Breeze, a solo exhibition by emerging artist Yu Tiantian. Taking the artist’s recent paintings and mixed-media installations as its point of departure, the exhibition explores how the energy of materials reveals itself through layering, suspension, seepage, and subtle shifts in form.

Light, shimmering, loosened, swaying, and soothing—these are the impressions that gradually emerge from Yu’s works. For her, art-making becomes a process of play, release, and self-adjustment—a way of softening from a fixed state into lines, traces, clusters, and gently expanding forms.

The title Cloudy to Clear also suggests an emotional transition: a movement from tension toward openness, from heaviness toward a more fluid way of facing the world. In this sense, Yu’s installations are not simply extensions of painting into different materials. Through her use of found objects and readymades, she proposes a quiet belief that every object contains its own subtle wonder. In her works, everyday materials such as nails, tape, fabric, tin foil, plastic wrap, and toys are placed alongside mineral pigments, ink, and antique silk. A thread piercing through fabric, a transparent trace of resin, or two adjacent blocks of color may form a delicate, non-functional connection. These gestures free objects from their original purposes and allow new possibilities to surface. This is perhaps the breeze Yu Tiantian creates: gentle, almost imperceptible, yet quietly resistant to an overly utilitarian world. It does not arrive with force, but accompanies us like a slight change in weather.

The exhibition title, Cloudy to Clear, a Hint of Breeze, echoes both the sensuous atmosphere of Yu’s works and the way they ask to be seen. They do not demand intense or prolonged attention. Rather, they invite a brief pause—a moment to sense changes in light, temperature, texture, and color, and to feel the breeze passing through layers of material and perception.