Do Ho Suh: Bridging Home, London

Do Ho Suh's new installation at Wormwood Street, EC2, commissioned by Art Night and Sculpture in the City, is on view from Monday 24 September 2018. 

Bridging Home, London is a replica of a traditional Korean house and surrounding bamboo garden, which will appear to have 'fallen' onto the Wormwood Street footbridge.

Suh's first large-scale outdoor installation in the capital, the work  reflects the

artist's own experience of moving across continents and between cultures, and continues his career-long investigation of memory, migration, the multiplicity of the immigrant experience, and home as both a physical structure and a lived experience.

Speaking about the work Suh comments, 'It is hugely rewarding to create a public work in London, my adopted home. For me, a building is more than just space. It is not only physical but also metaphorical and psychological. In my work I want to draw out these intangible qualities of energy, history, life and memory. While Bridging Home, London  comes from personal experience, I hope it is something a lot of people can relate to.'

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Image: Do Ho Suh, Bridging Home, London, 2018
Steel structural frame with sub timber frame, plywood, and painted finish
Dimensions variable
© Do Ho Suh
Courtesy of the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul; Victoria Miro, London/Venice (photography Gautier Deblonde)