Do Ho Suh: Almost Home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Do Ho Suh’s immersive, dreamlike work explores the nature and meaning of home, fastening ties between personal space and shared experience. Encountering his large-scale fabric sculptures is both deeply familiar and profoundly alien as the ordinary details of everyday life dissolve into ethereality.

Do Ho Suh: Almost Home features e a major installation of the artist’s brightly hued Hub sculptures along with a group of semi-transparent replicas of household objects called Specimens. Suh’s Hubs—finely rendered representations of thresholds and other transitional spaces from the various places he has lived—are inspired by his own history of migration. Born in Korea in 1962, Suh moved to the United States in 1991 and currently spends his time between New York, London, and Seoul. The objects he creates are an attempt to form a physical manifestation of memory and reckon with ideas of personal history, cultural traditions, and belief systems in the contemporary world.

Read more

Image: Do Ho Suh, Hub-01, Ground Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7SB, UK; Hub, Main Entrance, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA; Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK, 2016, polyester fabric and stainless steel. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Victoria Miro, London