Do Ho Suh
08 September - 22 October 2011
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Fallen Star, 2009
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DO HO SUH
Home Within Home
8 September – 22 October, 2011
Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Home Within Home on view 8 September – 22 October, 2011 at 540 W. 26th Street.
In Home Within Home, Do Ho Suh will present a series of works that
reflect the artist’s ongoing exploration of themes surrounding cultural
displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, as well as the
perception of our surroundings and how one constructs a memory of a
space. Suh’s own feeling of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. in
1991 to study at RISD led him to measure spaces in order to establish
relationships with his new surroundings. Years later, the artist
developed the idea of taking these measurements and using them to
replicate and transport spaces. Suh constructs these architectural
spaces and the elements within them in various mediums including
fabrics, resin, and Styrofoam. Among the works exhibited in this show
will be Fallen Star 1/5, Home Within Home, and a series of fabric
objects, all personally revealing works which invite viewers into his
homes.
For the works Fallen Star 1/5 and Home Within Home, which are ongoing
projects that Suh began in 2008, the artist created replicas of his
childhood home in Korea, and the home he adopted in Providence, Rhode
Island. The initial iterations were exhibited in "Psycho Buildings” at
the Hayward Gallery, London, "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary
Artists from Korea” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2009 and
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2009-2010. Fallen Star 1/5 reflects a
chapter within a fairytale-like story that Suh constructed to depict
his journey from Korea, in which he described feeling "as if he was
dropped from the sky.” In this narrative, a tornado lifts Suh and his
Korean home, transporting him to the U.S. where the tornado then drops
him and the house on a building in Providence. The work depicts this
crash and the fusion of the two homes. As Suh has said of the work,
"It’s my personal journey from Korea to the U.S. and the story of the
house that came along with me, or brought me here.” Home within Home
depicts Suh’s attempt to search for the perfect home. In contrast to the
collision in Fallen Star 1/5, these two homes in Home Within Home are
merged together, and it is not clear whether the artist’s Korean home
has grown inside of his Providence home or if the Providence home is
swallowing the Korean home. Walls and doors have been cleared in the
Korean home to make the spaces between the two houses more porous. The
work is dissected into four quadrants made of translucent resin, each
quadrant raised and pulled apart so that the audience can walk through.
Suh will also be presenting a series of fabric objects—replicas of
objects remaining in his New York home if all of its walls were to be
removed.
Do Ho Suh received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of
Design and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. In 2001, Suh
represented Korea at the Venice Biennale and in 2010 participated in the
Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition and the Liverpool Biennial.
Recent exhibitions include "A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project” at the
Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, NY, and "Do Ho Suh” at
the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore. Forthcoming exhibitions
include ”Wielandstr. 18, 12159 Berlin” at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany,
"Luminous: The Art of Asia” at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA,
"The Portal Project” at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX,
and solo exhibitions at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the 21st
Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and the Hiroshima City
Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. The artist’s work is
represented in numerous museum collections including the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN, the Tate Modern, London, UK, Artsonje Center, Seoul,
Korea, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Do Ho Suh lives and works
in New York, London, and Seoul.
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