Eugene Kangawa(EUGENE Studio)’s interview was featured in The New York Times International Weekly Edition (print). Some portions of the content also appeared in The Japan Times (online edition).
Contributing Writer:Erik Augustin Palm
(Excerpt from the article)
...Kangawa’s art and its spaces ask us to pause, consider the passage of time and the weight of our presence in it.”
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...With “After the Rainbow,” his 2021 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kangawa reached a new milestone. At 32, he was the youngest artist ever to hold a solo exhibition at the museum. Exploring the possibilities of coexistence ― between humanity and nature, the tangible and the imagined ― the exhibition established Kangawa as a voice of piercing lucidity in a fragmented era.
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...In an era defined by speed and saturation, Kangawa’s work insists on slowness. Whether in the quiet accumulations of “Goldrain,” the deliberate gradations of “Light and Shadow Inside Me,” or the long-term vision of the upcoming Eugene Museum in Bali, he rejects immediacy.
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...Kangawa’s work is partially distinguished by his insistence on the permeability between personal and public spaces.
