Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness

In one series, Sugimoto wrote the characters of the Heart Sutra in the dark, using photographic fixer on paper. The result is 288 unique silver prints, each one different.

The show gathers 63 works from 11 series across five decades, plus 14 fossils from his own collection. Sugimoto designed the layout as a mandala, with paths that split, loop and reconnect, so there is no set route. Theaters compresses an entire film into one glowing screen in an empty cinema. His Seascapes put the horizon in the middle of the frame at more than 250 locations. If your camera roll holds 400 near-identical shots of the Marina Bay skyline, he did it on purpose.

It fills Gallery 1 and The Engine Room at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, open 10:00 to 19:00 daily. Tickets are SGD 20 for tourists and SGD 15 for citizens and PRs, and entry is free from 5 to 11 October, the closing week.