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Do Ho Suh



Do Ho Suh, Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home, 2013. Translucent nylon. 12m x 15m National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul)
Do Ho Suh uses colour-transparent fiber to create or "wave" three-dimensional items such as refrigerators, bathtubs, door handles, and other common items in his life. From the works, he presents a private space in his mind and resonates not only his personal experience but also the viewer's private experience from the sculptures. 

"Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home" is a 1:1 scale replica of two houses the artist had previously lived in, one inside the other.

The "soul of a house" is the best phrase to describe his work. The work mixes our sense of space and the physical presence in the material world. The house he lived in his childhood is especially important to him, he considers it is a unique place and the fabric sculptures are not only reconstruct the physical space but also as a transfer of his memory of this space, an intangible, metaphorical and psychological one. 


Do Ho Suh, The Perfect Home II, 2003. Translucent nylon. Brooklyn Museum

A detail shot of The Perfect Home II (2003)

"The Perfect Home II"(2003) is a full reconstruction of the artist's apartment at Chelsea, New York, and his home for 19 years. Visitors can walk in and pass through the hand-stitched translucent fabric structures. It is exactly like being into someone's memory, those fragile and uncertain feeling arose when I saw his works. They are like breathing, they are almost weightless but we cannot exist without them.





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