Hiraku Suzuki

This series of large-scale works were presented in the exhibition, MOT Annual 2019 Echo after Echo: Summoned voices, new shadows (The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo). For Suzuki, who has gathered information regarding lines drawn by human beings from historical sites around the world, the red iron oxide color appropriated in the background overlays upon it the memories of cave paintings, while also evoking the insides of the human body. The title “Interexcavation” is a neologism devised by the artist to express the interactive vector wherein the act of drawing, which engages with an external subject, also summons something from within the drawer. The silver lines and dots that characterize his recent works, while reflecting the light, manifest in space as an “excavation,” or in other words a signal indicating the very moment when the past and the present intersect.

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