CACL Inc. (CEO: Junichi Okuyama) will host a co-curated exhibition with AWASE gallery, titled “We Are All Fragments,” from Saturday, January 10 to Sunday, January 25, 2026, at AWASE gallery in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

During the exhibition period, CACL will collaborate with intoART, an art-based learning platform operated by Gotoschool Inc., to host a ceramic fragment workshop for children, alongside several public talk sessions.
Reservations for all related events open today.

At the venue, visitors will be able to view a comprehensive overview of CACL’s activities to date, including works from the “one mesh” series—such as small plates and serving dishes—as well as “textone-NOTO-KAWARA,” a building material sample made from black Noto roof tiles. This work was realized through a triple collaboration between CACL, LIXIL Corporation, and Yuko Nagayama & Associates, and was first announced in September 2025.
In addition, the chopstick rest “HASHI STAND,” which will also be created during workshops, will be exhibited and available for purchase.

【Event ① During the Exhibition

】AWASE gallery × intoART / 5th Collaborative Workshop

intoART, operated by Gotoschool Inc., is a learning platform that fosters independent thinking and expressive skills through art, welcoming participants from children to students and adults.
In this workshop, intoART partners with CACL to offer a hands-on chopstick-rest–making workshop, using discarded Kutani ware deemed non-standard and ceramic fragments broken during the Noto Peninsula Earthquake—materials that CACL has collected through its ongoing activities.

■ Event Details

• Date & Time: Monday, January 12 (National Holiday)
① 10:30–12:00
② 13:30–15:00
③ 15:30–17:00
• Eligibility: Open to all ages, from young children to seniors
(Family participation encouraged)
• Capacity: 10 participants per session
(Children aged 3 and above may participate / One guardian may accompany children up to junior high school age / Up to 3 participants may be registered per group)
• Fee: JPY 6,500 (tax included)
JPY 5,500 for intoART members
Includes material cost for making two chopstick rests per participant
• Application: https://artsticker.app/events/109529
(First-come, first-served)

Photos: Previous workshops held jointly by AWASE gallery × intoART

Photos: Chopstick-rest workshops previously hosted by CACL and completed works

【Event ② During the Exhibition】Talk Session / “Design Approaches to Social Issues”

How can we find engaging and inspiring solutions to social challenges and translate them into design?
How can objects deemed “valueless” by society be transformed into new possibilities?

Starting with the Noto roof tile project collaboratively undertaken by three companies (see note below), this session explores methods of discovering and expressing new value from architectural, artistic, and cultural perspectives. Each speaker will unpack their approach based on their own professional standpoint.

※ CACL × LIXIL × Yuko Nagayama & Associates
Joint project to preserve and pass on the traditional Noto landscape
Project details: https://newsroom.lixil.com/ja/2025090101

■Speakers

 • Yuko Nagayama (left)
Architect / Representative, Yuko Nagayama & Associates

• Yutaka Haga (center)
Executive Officer, LIXIL Corporation
Leader, DESIGN & BRAND JAPAN

• Junichi Okuyama (right)
CEO, CACL Inc.

■ Event Details

• Date & Time: Wednesday, January 14, 19:30–20:30
(Doors open at 19:00)
• Capacity: 15 participants
• Fee: Free of charge
• Application: https://forms.gle/e86gHmYFGZEheDRj8

If applications exceed capacity, participants will be selected by lottery. Only successful applicants will be notified within the year.

Focusing on the concept of “fragments,” a core theme in CACL’s work, this session brings together two leading figures active across the art world to examine the social significance and potential of art.

■Speakers

 • Robert Campbell (left)
Scholar of Japanese Literature

• Mari Hashimoto (center)
Museum Producer

• Junichi Okuyama (right)
CEO, CACL Inc.

■Event Details

• Date & Time: Monday, January 19, 19:30–20:30
(Doors open at 19:00)
• Capacity: 15 participants
• Fee: Free of charge
• Application: https://forms.gle/e86gHmYFGZEheDRj8

If applications exceed capacity, participants will be selected by lottery. Only successful applicants will be notified within the year.

Exhibition Works (Planned)

“one mesh 251125”

“one mesh 201025”

Comments from Related Parties

Junichi Okuyama, CEO, CACL Inc.

We were approached by AWASE gallery—run by young architect Riku Matsui of Yuko Nagayama & Associates and contemporary artist Kohei Yamada—about this collaborative exhibition. Having worked together previously and with their deep understanding of our activities, we were truly delighted by the invitation.

It has been two and a half years since CACL began its activities. While we have developed brands such as the Rediscover Project and KAKERA, this is the first exhibition to comprehensively look back on CACL’s journey.
This time, we will focus on workshops and talk sessions, alongside exhibiting and selling our works.

The exhibition also poses questions about the relationship between our work and the visitors themselves. Some visitors may be regular gallery-goers with a deep interest in art, while others may be stepping into a gallery for the first time.
In this unique space operated by architects and artists, we hope visitors will enjoy the “place” itself—a space made possible precisely because of its openness and room for interpretation.

Riku Matsui, Director, AWASE gallery

Our direct connection with Mr. Okuyama of CACL began during Yuko Nagayama’s solo exhibition “Things That Could Surely Exist” held at our gallery in September 2025, where exhibited works were presented through a charity auction to support the collection and preservation of roof tiles from homes destroyed in the Noto Peninsula Earthquake.

As January marks two years since the earthquake, we reached out to Mr. Okuyama, who continues to work actively in the Noto region.
In addition to exhibiting works, this exhibition will feature talk sessions and workshops addressing a variety of themes.
We aim to convey CACL’s activities, in which fragments of craft, history, values, and awareness are woven together to create diverse forms.

Kosuke Nakamura, Exhibition Director

At the core of CACL’s activities lies a strong sense of personal engagement with social division, which gives their work a striking and pure brilliance.
Their creative process—accepting sharp edges without sanding them down—reveals a deep affection for fragments themselves, as well as a powerful ability to design the connective tissue of society.

To connect fragments, one must not only understand their individual shapes, but also grasp the relationships between them and imagine the form of the whole.
The hands-on approach rooted in Noto makes us feel as though we ourselves are part of that relationship.
The exhibition title was inspired by precisely this creative landscape.

About AWASE gallery

AWASE gallery, located in Shinjuku-sanchome, Tokyo, is a gallery and art space where artists are free to experiment and challenge new forms of expression.
In an era where the boundaries between artwork and artist are increasingly blurred, the gallery uses the ambiguous and multifaceted concept of “Landscape” as a guiding axis, introducing artists and architects deeply engaged with space and structure here in Shinjuku.

Official website: https://awase-gallery.com/

Exhibition Overview

Title: We Are All Fragments
Dates: January 10 (Sat) – January 25 (Sun), 2026
Hours: 12:00–19:00
Opening Party: January 10 (Sat), 16:00–19:00
Closed: Monday–Tuesday
Admission: Free
Venue: AWASE gallery Project Space “On”
(Matsui Building 8F, 3-32-10 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022)
Exhibition Director: Kosuke Nakamura
Organizers: AWASE gallery, CACL Inc.
Cooperation: Yuko Nagayama & Associates
Contact: info@awasegallery.com

Company Profile

• Company Name: CACL Inc.
• Website: https://cacl.jp/
• Address: R-56 Tatsunokuchi-machi, Nomi City, Ishikawa 923-1245, Japan
• CEO: Junichi Okuyama
• Established: June 1, 2023
• Tel: +81-761-48-8004

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