Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form is Emptiness

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form is Emptiness marks the internationally acclaimed artist’s first major exhibition in Southeast Asia. The exhibition presents 63 works across 11 series alongside 14 fossil specimens from Sugimoto’s personal collection. A rarely exhibited three-channel video work will also be featured.

Spanning more than five decades of sustained practice, the exhibition reflects Sugimoto’s ongoing inquiry into form and perception, informed by the Heart Sutra, a foundational Buddhist text that considers emptiness as inseparable from form and the act of seeing itself. Extending photography into script, sculpture and architectural design, his practice explores ways of seeing that move between the visible and unseen.

Designed by the artist himself, the exhibition unfolds within a carefully structured, mandala-like spatial layout influenced by Buddhist cosmological thinking, guiding visitors through interconnected paths that consider the relationship between material form and its inherent emptiness.