HIROSHI SUGIMOTO'S collection of clever monochromes, "Time Exposed", concerns the way the passage of hours and minutes can change the appearance of an object, but also the ways in which larger periods of time impact on how objects - and, by extension, ideas - are seen and understood.
For Sugimoto, not the slightest thing about the modality of the visible is ineluctable. The passage of time, on the contrary, suggests a ceaseless mutability in what we see.
Sugimoto took one set of pictures at museums of natural history. His delicately toned images feature dioramas, of the undersea world, but significantly do not show the cases or the museums which contain these representations of "nature".
Another series of images involves time lapse photography performed at various American drive in theatres. Over a period the succession of bright, moving images on the screen creates a central glowing white box in the monochrome print.
The third group of images in the show are stark seascapes. Although the titles refer to specific marine areas, no detail in the photographs gives away anything concerning these locations. Yet, Sugimoto seems to suggest, somewhere in those simple counterbalances of light and shade lie the traces of our own ways of seeing, ways which only time can expose.
