Hiroshi Sugimoto in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Artistic Director, Serpentine.

Born in Tokio, Japan, in 1948. Hiroshi Sugimoto lives and works in New
York, USA and Tokyo, Japan since 1974.

Sugimoto’s practice expands to photography, sculpture, installation, architecture, garden design, writing, calligraphy, culinary arts, and directing / producing performing arts.

Influenced by American Minimalism and conceptual art, he is interested
in fundamental phenomena such as space and time, their transience and
our memory and has been addressing himself for decades with recurrent
themes.

His enigmatic photographs show dioramas in natural history
museums, empty movie theatres with glowing white screens, ocean
horizons in fog and icons of modern architecture.