Do Ho Suh
Visual artist
Location: New York (US)
Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul in 1962 in an environment conducive to artistic creation (painter father, mother in charge of preserving South Korean heritage, architect brother). He first trained at Seoul National University (Fine Arts, specializing in painting) then at the Rhode Island School of Design and finally at the Yale School of Sculpture.
Concept of “home”.
His work includes several recurring themes and questions: the articulation between the notions of individual and group, the notions of spaces and the feeling of belonging (whether to an identity, a group, a place). He has also worked extensively around the concept of “home”.
Notions of space.
Do Ho Suh, through his interest in the notion of “home” (“home” rather than “house”) questions the notions of space. Indeed, by recreating 1:1 scale copies of places where he has lived (with an estimated accuracy rate of 80% according to his own words), he transgresses representations of space, allowing himself to install a reproduction of his childhood home in Seoul in a museum in the United States, or to connect elements of his various “homes” to each other, thus placing end to end reproductions of Korean, American and German places in a gallery in London. This is an opportunity for him to realize his “very old desire to blur the limits of geographical distances.”
Website→ https://www.instagram.com/dohosuhstudio/
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