When Light Takes Shape at Art Basel Paris

For the fourth edition of Art Basel Paris, A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE unveils a special collaboration with Japanese-American artist Eugene Kangawa / EUGENE STUDIO: the TYPE-XIV Eugene Studio project, presented for the first time in a dedicated installation that merges fashion, art, and textile innovation.

The project draws from Kangawa’s pivotal series Light and shadow inside me, an ongoing exploration of what light leaves behind—its traces, its fades, its shadows. The series consists of two distinct techniques: sun-bleached works on watercolor paper painted in a single green hue that gradually shifts into turquoise; and black-and-white photograms created by folding photographic paper into sculptural shapes and exposing them to a point light source in the darkroom. In both methods, a flat surface becomes dimensional—light acting not as mere illumination, but as a generative force.

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE expands this principle by returning to the essence of a piece of cloth. Instead of using dyes or pigments, the design team creates gradations solely through variations in woven density, working with just black and white threads. Warp and weft become the textile equivalent of photosensitive silver halide grains—a “bit-level fabric” producing complex expressions from the simplest components.

The installation, designed by Paris-based architect Tsuyoshi Tane, transforms the exhibition space into an immersive environment where a single piece of fabric unfolds through the room, quietly shifting between flatness and form, light and shadow. Alongside the artworks and production tools, the exhibition includes guided tours led by Kangawa and A-POC ABLE designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae, as well as a workshop inviting visitors to experience the creative process firsthand.

A dialogue between art and fashion, in which light builds structure—and fabric becomes image.