Brian Dillon on Hiroshi Sugimoto

8 Nov 2023 7-9pm

Overview

Writer and critic Brian Dillon delivers a spoken response to the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, inspired by the Hayward Gallery’s latest exhibition.

Dillon has a longstanding interest in Sugimoto’s photography and has written extensively on themes and ideas which are at the core of his work, particularly the power of photography to expose humankind’s relationship to time.

Brian Dillon is an Irish writer and critic based in London. His books include Affinities (2023), Suppose a Sentence (2020), Essayism (2017) and In the Dark Room (2005). His writing on art, books and culture has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, frieze and the London Review of Books.

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