Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness

Conceived in relation to the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness at the Singapore Art Museum, this catalogue invites readers into the artist’s contemplative world. Through texts by the exhibition curators, Harvard scholar Dr Yukio Lippit, Mori Art Museum director Mami Kataoka and Sugimoto himself, a series of resonances within Sugimoto’s photographic practice unfolds, tracing its dialogue with Buddhist philosophy and cosmology; its intersections with scientific inquiry; its mediation of Sugimoto’s Japanese upbringing and aesthetic sensibilities and his formative years working in 1970s New York City; as well as its allusions to poetic and aesthetic traditions. Spanning more than five decades of work, this publication takes readers through Sugimoto’s enduring investigations into consciousness, time and perception. The texts extend his artistic inquiries, mapping the interplay between form and void, presence and (im)permanence.

Country of Origin: Singapore
Search words: Photography, conceptual photography, Buddhism, conceptual art