Do Ho Suh
Born 1962, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in London, New York, and Seoul
Hub-1, Entrance, 260-7, Sungbook-Dong, Sungboo-Ku, Seoul, Korea,, 2018
Polyester fabric and stainless steel
“I consider migration to be a process,” says Do Ho Suh, “not something that happens overnight. Each step of the process is like crossing another threshold.” Impressions of space, environment, and home are central to Suh’s art, which explores memory through materials and architecture. His delicate fabric sculptures depict rooms, thresholds, and passageways from the artist’s former homes. The structures’ translucence may evoke the nature of memory: somewhere between real and unreal, visible and invisible. They are actual size and painstakingly sewn, with doorknobs, molding, and outlets crafted in precise detail. The works shown here represent two spaces from the artist’s childhood home in South Korea—the entry and eating area—connected to form a passageway. In imaginatively linking the fragments of places he has lived, Suh reconfigures memories of home in the present.
