In his innovative installations, assemblages, and performance pieces, Japanese artist Kishio Suga confronts viewers with gracefully unexpected arrangements of natural and manufactured materials, adapting the scale and elements of his works in relation to the sites where they are installed. Affiliated with the Mono-ha movement, Suga explores materials and their capacity to influence the spaces around them. Left-behind Situation, 1972, from Glenstone’s collection, consists of an array of connected wooden blocks suspended above the floor installed to fill the space of an entire room.

–Elizabeth Shaw, from the Glenstone Field Guide