Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

Portrait of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Photograph: Sugimoto Studio

Over the past 50 years, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most celebrated and recognisable images in contemporary art.

Exclusive to Sydney, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is the largest exhibition to date of the internationally renowned artist’s work. Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlights Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent.

Employing a large-format camera and mixing his own darkroom chemicals, Sugimoto has often revisited ideas and practices from 19th-century photography, capturing subjects such as dioramas, wax figures and architecture. His work has stretched and rearranged concepts of time, space and light that are integral to the medium. For Sugimoto, photography is uniquely suited for preserving and picturing time’s passage, functioning as a form of time machine.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is kindly supported by Neilson Foundation, K&S Martin-Weber, Warwick Evans, Minyu Zhang and Toshiba International Foundation/

About the artist - Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sugimoto’s signature practice spans the mediums of photography, performing arts, sculpture, installation and architecture. His art deals with history and temporal existence through a variety of subject matters. He explores issues surrounding time, empiricism, and metaphysics that bridge Eastern and Western ideologies while examining the nature of perception and the origins of consciousness.