Do Ho Suh

(Seoul, South Korea, 1962)

Sculptor, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University; His move to the United States would mark his artistic production, leading him to become interested in the representation of the home. Through his installations he reflects on the domestic space, Suh's homes are made up of fine glazes, a series of layers that are superimposed with multiple readings about the space we inhabit and, with it, about ourselves. It delves into the immaterial nature of homes, the memory that is woven in physical space and the correlation between physical and psychological spaces. Its installations form a symbolic framework around identity, migration or the feeling of belonging or not belonging to the space, which materialize taking the form of a house. A modulated emotional architecture, fragile like memories. This review of domestic space is an exercise in the materialization of memory. Suh meticulously reconstructs the houses in which he has lived using semi-transparent fabrics, stopping at every detail because it houses what he has experienced. The transparency of the fabric intertwines public and private space, the outside world is reflected in the personal and intimate one. It configures an archive of homes, a kind of album of memories that are in a state of continuous reform to expand information. Memories continue to develop over the course of one's life. In Hub-1, Entrance, 296-8, Sungbook-Dong, Sungboo-Ku, Seoul, Korea (2018), full-scale reproduction of a hallway area of the artist's childhood home in Seoul. The author explores, in this and other works, the intermediate spaces that we pass through before entering the rooms, in which the relationship between exterior and interior, public and private is blurred.