Artist Do Ho Suh Recreates Homes in Translucent Fabric to Preserve Memories
Creatrip Team
23 days ago
A retrospective by installation artist Do Ho Suh opens at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, presenting 30 years of work that treats 'home' as a mobile, memory-filled skin rather than a fixed asset. Raised in a traditional hanok (Korean wooden house), Suh builds life-sized, translucent polyester fabric replicas of the various homes he has lived in around the world—London, New York, Berlin, Providence and Seoul—layering details like doorknobs, switches and hinges to preserve traces of daily life. The exhibition begins with a 'seed bank' of childhood sketches, toys and early works, continues with around 200 drawings including thread drawings on special papers, and features rubbing-based works that record surfaces of his childhood hanok using hanji (traditional Korean paper). A 'Bridge Project' imagines a boundaryless, floating perfect home, while new intimate works explore fatherly love using family clothing. The show runs through Feb 9 with a large unit recreating a New York apartment corridor to be installed in December.
