What happens when you take an artist obsessed with light and an iconic fashion house obsessed with fabric? You get a project that looks less like clothing and more like the future.

Japanese artist Eugene Kangawa (b. 1989) and A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE, led by designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae, are about to flip the script on how art and textiles collide. Their new collaboration, debuting at Art Basel Paris this October, takes Kangawa’s hauntingly beautiful series Light and Shadow Inside Me (2022—) and reimagines it in a textile so revolutionary, it doesn’t even need dyes. That’s right—a gradient from pure black to white created only by weaving density. It’s basically coding with threads.

But here’s where it gets even bigger: this isn’t just about Paris. In 2026, Bali will open the world’s first Eugene Museum, a sprawling one-hectare art sanctuary designed by star architect Andra Matin. Set in a UNESCO World Heritage landscape, the museum will feature more than 15 of Kangawa’s permanent installations—including Light and Shadow Inside Me—and even lets you stay overnight on-site to watch how his works transform as the light shifts. Think: an Airbnb, but inside an art piece.

Why should you care? Because this collab isn’t just fashion-meets-art. It’s about questioning what “existence” looks like when translated into fabric, space, and light. Kangawa describes his process as literally painting with sunlight and shadows—then flipping it into monochrome photograms in the darkroom. Miyamae and his team took that philosophy and coded it into fabric structure, building something that feels almost alive.

Whether you catch it in Paris this fall or Bali next summer, one thing’s for sure: this is more than art, more than fashion—it’s a glimpse of what creativity looks like when boundaries collapse.