DO HO SUH
Do Ho Suh is a Korean installation artist currently based in London, Seoul and New York.
Suh's work explores the meaning of home, homeland, questions of identity in relationship to space - the boundaries of private and collective space.His work comes from his own sense of displacement, drawing from memories of his childhood home in South Korea, his young adult life in the United States and his current nomadic state.
REFLECTION 2008
Suh made fabric replicas of transitional spaces such as gates, doors and stairs, that also represents his personal history.
In Reflection 2008, He made a replica of a gate of in his parents' traditional Hanok house in South Korea where he grew up.
He uses fabric as a material because he initially daydreamed of being able to pack his homes and carrying them with him wherever he went. Fabric is the only material that would allow this to be possible. Fabric also allowed the light of each exhibition site to interact with the spaces he created.
"The space I'm interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical and psychological one. For me, space is that which encompasses everything. So in that sense, one could say that my art looks at diverse forms and media through the prism called reflection on space"
Do Ho Suh is a Korean installation artist currently based in London, Seoul and New York.
Suh's work explores the meaning of home, homeland, questions of identity in relationship to space - the boundaries of private and collective space.His work comes from his own sense of displacement, drawing from memories of his childhood home in South Korea, his young adult life in the United States and his current nomadic state.
REFLECTION 2008
Suh made fabric replicas of transitional spaces such as gates, doors and stairs, that also represents his personal history.
In Reflection 2008, He made a replica of a gate of in his parents' traditional Hanok house in South Korea where he grew up.
He uses fabric as a material because he initially daydreamed of being able to pack his homes and carrying them with him wherever he went. Fabric is the only material that would allow this to be possible. Fabric also allowed the light of each exhibition site to interact with the spaces he created.
"The space I'm interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical and psychological one. For me, space is that which encompasses everything. So in that sense, one could say that my art looks at diverse forms and media through the prism called reflection on space"
Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home/L.A. Home, 1999
Suh's work titles his pieces after the sites that it was created and exhibited it. By adding the cities that his works existed in, he records the site-specificity that becomes a part of the works' travel/existence.
Suh's work titles his pieces after the sites that it was created and exhibited it. By adding the cities that his works existed in, he records the site-specificity that becomes a part of the works' travel/existence.
HOME WITHIN A HOME
FALLEN STAR
Fallen Star explores a sense of culture shock and memory through a childlike narrative. Suh created replicas of every object in his homes in various countries. In this piece, his South Korean home crashes into his home in Rhode island.
RUBBING PROJECT
Suh pasted paper onto surfaces of his spaces, and rubbed them with pencil. He recorded space in a physical approach, using simply pencil and paper to understand its physicality.
Some/One, 2003, Stainless Steel Military Dog Tags
Suh also explores clothing as a concept of personal space. He uses military dog tags to create a sculpture in the shape of an emperor's robe. This piece questions both personal and collective identity.
Suh also explores clothing as a concept of personal space. He uses military dog tags to create a sculpture in the shape of an emperor's robe. This piece questions both personal and collective identity.