A Brief History of Time | January 7 - February 27, 2027

Fraenkel Gallery presents A Brief History of Time, an exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto exploring the relationship between cosmic and human timescales. Bringing together recent and historical works, the exhibition centers on Spacescape, 2024, a monumental folding screen created through the artist's collaboration with Sony, the University of Tokyo, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Other photographs from across Sugimoto’s career investigate the elemental forces shaping our world. His Seascapes evoke a primordial landscape, while Lightning Fields revisit the electrical energies associated with the origins of life.

The exhibition also introduces recent Brush Impression works, in which Sugimoto uses photographic chemicals to create calligraphic marks directly on light-sensitive paper, combining ancient writing traditions with analog photographic processes.

Images:

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Brush Impression 1654 (Sun/Day) 2024. © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco