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October 24, 2025
The exhibition was featured in designboom (Italy, web)
“The Global Journey of a Light-Born Work
weaving light: eugene kangawa and A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE turn photograms into fabric—‘Light and shadow inside me’ is a body of work made entirely through light. Earlier iterations comprised sheets of paper brushed with dye, folded into geometric shapes, and left to fade under sunlight for weeks, while later versions evolved into monochrome photograms made by exposing folded photographic paper to artificial light. ...”
October 23, 2025
The exhibition was featured in Wallpaper (UK, web).
“Read our pick of the best Paris art exhibitions to see in September, from copyist art at Centre Pompidou-Metz to Virgil Abloh ‘The Codes’ at Grand Palais.”
October 14, 2025
The exhibition was featured in The Steidz (France, web).
“Eugene Kangawa moves fluidly across different media—two-dimensional works, monumental installations, sculptures, and video—creating forms of expression that resonate with both art history and philosophy while embodying a highly refined contemporary aesthetic. His works, at once abstract and powerfully evocative, engage both intellect and sensibility.”
“The monochrome works in Light and shadow inside me are made neither with paint nor through printing, but using the photographic technique of the photogram, which requires neither a camera nor film. Since the prewar era, artists such as Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and Ei-Q have explored this method, often using elements such as flowers, hands, or spheres. By contrast, this series works exclusively with two components: the inherent power of paper and that of light, without recourse to any other object.”
October 21, 2025
The exhibition was featured in Whitewall (US, web)
“Inside Issey Miyake and Artist Eugene Kangawa’s Art Basel Paris Collaboration”
“What struck me most was the idea that ‘light itself becomes a material, generating new aesthetic values through the passage of time.’ Sunlight or exposure in a darkroom leaves traces on paper, where chance and inevitability intertwine with the dual nature of light and shadow inherent in all things.”
—From an interview with Yoshiyuki Miyamae, designer at A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE.
“This philosophy has arisen from many experiences in my life—both social and personal. From the state of the world, to the death of my mother, to the yearning for peace, and to encounters with nature—these have all shaped the way I have come to understand it.”
—Eugene Kangawa
September 24, 2025
The exhibition was featured in WWD (US, Web).
“LIGHT AND SHADOW: An exhibition hosted by A-Poc Able Issey Miyake, featuring a series of photograms by contemporary artist Eugene Kangawa, plus new textiles inspired by them, will take place during Art Basel Paris, running Oct. 24 to 26.”
October 2025
The exhibition was featured in hube magazine (US, web)
“Yoshiyuki Miyamae & Eugene Kangawa: A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE — light, shadow, and the space between”
October 21, 2025
The exhibition was featured in VOGUE BUSINESS (UK, Web).
“Art Basel Paris 2025 cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about the art fair’s latest edition under the nave of the Grand Palais.”
October 23, 2025
ISSEY MIYAKE (Web) has featured an interview with Eugene Kangawa (EUGENE STUDIO) on its official website, “A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE DIALOGUES.”
Episode 11 Eugene Kangawa – An Uncharted Language Woven from Light and Shadow
October 27, 2025
The exhibition was featured in MUSE Magazine (Italy, web).
“Eugene Kangawa & Issey Miyake where light becomes warp and time becomes weft in a sensory inquiry transforming the invisible into the tactile architecture of a new language”
“TYPE-XIV Eugene Studio Project thus becomes a true threshold between discipline and freedom, between the invisible and the visible, between the ancient and the future. Paris embraces its vibration as a promise: here, matter is light, light is history, and every visitor, in the rhythm of shadows, can seek their own metamorphosis.”
September 24, 2025
The exhibition was featured in PAUSE Magazine (UK, web).
“A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE and artist Eugene Kangawa Team Up For a Collaboration During Art Basel–A Textile Innovation”
“Inspired by Kangawa’s Light and shadow inside me series, which uses photograms to capture gradients, the collaboration has resulted in a revolutionary ‘bit-level’ textile. This fabric achieves subtle gradations from black to white using only weaving techniques, completely eliminating the need for dyes or multiple thread colours.”
September 25, 2025
The exhibition was featured in Family Style (US, web).
“Seeing Light–Over the course of each day, prints will transform with the hour, as light turns to shadow, and shadow returns to light.”
Comment by Yoshiyuki Miyamae
“We are delighted to present an exhibition in Paris in collaboration with Eugene Kangawa / EUGENE STUDIO.
Mr. Kangawa seamlessly moves across a wide range of media—from two-dimensional works to large-scale installations, sculptures, and video—creating expressions that resonate with both art history and philosophy, while embodying a contemporary and refined aesthetic sensibility. His works, imbued with abstraction yet strikingly evocative, possess the power to engage both intellect and emotion.
The series featured in this exhibition, Light and shadow inside me, uses photographic paper as its material, capturing the traces of light and time as tangible marks. Through this process, Mr. Kangawa seeks to carve out a new expressive territory that is neither painting nor photography.
A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE has consistently returned to the essence of materials and structure, exploring new possibilities in clothing. For this project, inspired by Mr. Kangawa’s reflections, we returned to the smallest unit of fabric: a single thread. Using only black and white threads, we explore light and shadow through variations in weave patterns and density, translating the phenomena of photographic paper and light into the language of cloth.
Mr. Kangawa’s aesthetic, which derives rich expression from the fundamental elements of light and shadow, has offered us a new perspective in our creative practice. This exhibition serves as an experimental space where art and clothing intersect, and where light and shadow coexist to reveal a fundamental beauty.
We look forward to sharing this exploration with many visitors in the historically and culturally layered city of Paris.”