Kishio Suga
Progression of Spatial Alignment, 1979
wood, branches
72.1 x 228 x 73 cm
28 3/8 x 89 3/4 x 28 3/4 in
28 3/8 x 89 3/4 x 28 3/4 in
This is a relatively rare example of a small, adjustable floor-based installation. Suga usually makes room-filling site-specific installations or smaller freestanding pieces like Paired Circumferences, (1991) and Edges, Before and...
This is a relatively rare example of a small, adjustable floor-based installation. Suga usually makes room-filling site-specific installations or smaller freestanding pieces like Paired Circumferences, (1991) and Edges, Before and After (1990). This work is somewhere in between the two. It does not technically have a single fixed position—the angles of each component can be adjusted—but this configuration is the most stable, given that the hinges are old and weak. Suga was interested in the equivalence between the natural branches of wood and the industrially cut bars of wood, as well as the subtle negative spaces created in the areas where the natural branches protrude beyond the wood bars at some of the angles.