International lecture with artist Do Ho Suh: Home within home

Open Lecture at KADK with artist Do Ho Suh.

Artist Do Ho Suh explores contemporary arrangements of space and the unstable boundaries of its categorisation along lines of individuality and collectivity, physicality and immateriality, mobility and fixity. Influenced by his peripatetic existence – leaving his native South Korea to study and live in the United States, he has more recently moved between New York, Seoul and London – an enduring theme of the artist's practice is the connection between the individual and the group across global cultures. 

The lecture is part of the ‘Strangely Familiar’ lecture series arranged by MA Spatial Design, Institute of Architecture and Design.

Do Ho Suh's work
Suh treats the complex psychological and physical architectural structures of the concept of 'home'. In work for which he is widely known, he meticulously constructs proportionally exact replicas of dwelling places, architectural features, or household appliances, from stitched planes of translucent, coloured polyester fabric.

Often reflections of places the artist has inhabited, such as his childhood home or Western apartments, these delicately precise, weightless impressions seem to exist between imagination and reality. Suh has spoken of the distinctive openness to the environment of Korean homes; more than repositories of personal memory or nostalgic projections, his works respond to the indistinct boundaries between psychic interior and objective exterior, which make of home an ongoing lived function rather than a physical structure.

About Do Ho Suh
Born in 1962 in South Korea, Do Ho Suh received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. He currently lives and works in London. Suh has staged numerous recent international solo exhibitions and site-specific projects at institutional venues. His work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Tate, London.