Searching for the Lacanian Real within the frames of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes (1980-2002) is as quixotic as the transubstantiation of the same through language. In his photographs nothing deviates from the studium. Stark in appearance and deceptively simple in composition, they are exercises in technical prowess, systematic restraint, and meticulous planning. However, to say that I experience his images with an average affect from an acquired training is untruthful. There is, undoubtedly, a pierce—a puncture—that occurs in my encounter with the […]

Categories: fictions, word attic • Tags: contemporary art, photography, sugimoto