Rodin - Sugimoto

Shot in chiaroscuro on headless mannequins, and thus removed from the context of the human body and its emotive associations and specificities, the garments reveal their pure formal qualities in terms of dramatic contrasts in form, volume, and surface. Sugimoto captures the abstract, sculptural nature intrinsic to the history of clothing - a history as ancient as humanity itself - and in so doing, depicts the eternity beyond the evanescence. Texts by Kenneth Wayne.