"WIRED" features "EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow," a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, which will open in November 2021.

(Excerpt from the article)

A Journey into the "New Sea" of Consciousness: Highlights of the Exhibition by "EUGENE STUDIO".

…
EUGENE STUDIO, a Japan-based artist studio by contemporary artist Eugene Kangawa, is currently holding a solo exhibition titled "EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. This is the first solo exhibition by a Heisei-born artist at the museum. Here are some highlights of the exhibition, which addresses fundamental questions of human nature, along with words from Eugene Kangawa.

"...Kangawa says this about this work. Printing technology has advanced over time to avoid fading, and it has become difficult to encourage the opposite. From more than 200 experiments, Eugene Kangawa combined ink materials from Japanese and Dutch manufacturers with French paper used since 1600 to attempt fading caused by natural light. ..."

"...we are all bound together as one big group in society. However, the people next to us are all different and have very different levels of proximity to each other. We cannot be integrated into each other, and differences are bound to emerge. And by recognizing the countless dots in the seemingly single large mass, we can also recognize that the mass was some kind of collective. I am projecting into my work the countless differences that would not be visible if I did not turn my interest to them. I think that the loneliness I felt during the pandemic, and the introspection I felt amid that loneliness, gave birth to these works that consider the individual and the collective. ..."

Read full story