Twin Magazine (UK, web) has featured the Paris exhibition (organized by A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE) of Eugene Kangawa’s Light and shadow inside me series in collaboration with A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE.

“Here both discuss the how, what and why of this beautiful project that took three years to realise which launches with an exhibition in Paris this week.”

Published on: November 03, 2025
Written by: Susanna Davies Crook / Francesca Gavin

Excerpt from the article

Japanese artist Eugene Kangawa was invited by the designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae at A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE for a collaboration pushing the possibilities of textiles. Here both discuss the how, what and why of this beautiful project that took three years to realise which launches with an exhibition in Paris this week.

Yoshiyuki Miyamae: The relationship between light and shadow” inherent in Eugene Kangawa’s work deeply resonated with what we have been exploring through fabric and clothing. Mr. Kangawa’s latest work, Light and shadow inside me, engages with a fundamental question: light itself paints the picture, and shadow proves its existence. This concept resonates with how fabric emerges from the intersection of threads, and how clothing only truly comes alive when it embraces the body and light. In Mr. Kangawa’s work lies the strength to generate new forms of expression from the simplest elements. We were drawn to this purity, and to the “living expression” that transforms over time and in response to its environment.
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Eugene Kangawa: The installation and curation for this project are being led by Tsuyoshi Tane, a Paris-based architect whose practice is grounded in an archaeological inquiry. He has approached this collaboration with the same depth and perspective. Under his direction, the exhibition will present the works and textiles alongside more than fifty objects—tools and motifs related to the collaboration—including an extremely rare original Edo-period book on origata (Japanese ceremonial paper folding), which remarkably contains folds strikingly similar to those found in my photogram works. In this sense, the exhibition carries the quality of a research endeavour paired with an intuitive sense of intrigue. I look forward to seeing how my work, translated into textile and exhibition, takes shape in space.

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Read the full article on Twin Magazine

*A digital archive of the exhibition can be viewed here.
https://the-eugene-studio.com/press/issey-miyake-a-poc-able-collaboration-light-and-shadow-2025/