Artist Booth Talk: Eugenie Kawabata

In Conversation with Sophie Vander, Director of Curatorial+Co., Eugenie Kawabata discusses her practice of transforming discarded textiles into vividly coloured, richly textured sculptural forms. Refusing to accept waste as an endpoint, she reimagines overlooked materials into objects that ask us to look again at what we throw away. Kawabata will speak about her fusion of hand-made and experimental processes—stitching, dyeing, and painting combined with resin—producing forms that oscillate between relic and specimen, design object and sculptural artefact. She reflects on how this transformation reframes our understanding of material, labour, and ecology, revealing the fragility of environments and the resilience of life within them.

Location: Curatorial+Co., Booth E02