Hiraku Suzuki 鈴木ヒラク

GENGA #001　2004

marker on xerox paper, h210 x w297mm

GENGA #002　2004

marker on xerox paper, h210 x w297mm

GENGA #001 - #1000 　2004 - 2009

marker on xerox paper, installation view at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan), 2009, Photo by Kazuo Fukunaga

GENGA #001 - #1000 (book)　2010

1000-page book, h156 x w110 x 60mm

installation view at Karl Johans Torg (Stockholm, Sweden) 　2004

installation view at Uplink Gallery (Tokyo)　2004

installation view at Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan, China)　2015

GENGA #001 - #1000 (video)　2009

single channel video (28min 10sec [loop]), installation view at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (Aomori, Japan), photo by Kuniya Oyamada

installation view Kunstraum Dusseldorf (Germany)　2015

The title “GENGA” refers to a word play between the words “GENGO” (language) and “GINGA” (galaxy), with “GENGA” also meaning primal or original pictures. In this work, Hiraku Suzuki draws his own lexicon of signs and hieroglyphs which echo as much his own phenomenology of place (cities, landscapes, travels) as (pre-)historical archetypes and trans-cultural psychological subconscious. Hence drawing becomes a kind of “alternative archeology”.