“Persevering with my lonely task on the deserted beach, I half-succumbed to the notion that human civilization had ended. The sight of crafted objects rotting away is at once dreadful and beautiful. Time foments corrosion. It does not take long for civilization to decay. Just a few decades are enough for a car, one symbol of our modern civilization, to decompose into nothing.” ----- Hiroshi Sugimoto

Unpublished work of Hiroshi Sugimoto ----- Back in 1990, Sugimoto found a group of lying objets on the beach when he was traveling around the seas in the Southern Hemisphere, working on his Seascapes series. The objets, fully in rust, were indeed the fragments of modern civilization. ON THE BEACH, which comes side by side with Seascapes, is first making its appearance after more than 20 years: Revealing Sugimoto’s another vision of time.