서도호
rubbing/loving: Seoul home, 2013-2022
Suh conjures his childhood home in Seoul - the hanok house he said 'has always followed me' - through his work, made decades after leaving South Korea. he wrapped the exterior of the building in mulberry paper, rubbing over it with graphite to create a portable trace. through this labour-intensive process Suh captured tiny details, such as the texture of the wood and decorative features. he then left the paper on the house for nine months, where it also gathered traces of the surrounding environment, including moisture and soil. he later carefully peeled off the paper tracings to re-erect them on an aluminium frame. through this process, he is interrogating 'how and whether the site is moveable'.
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staircase, 2016
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nest/s, 2024
in the large-scale work nest/s, Suh has stitched together a series of in-between spaces and rooms from buildings in Seoul, New York, London and Berlin. he connects them to form one continuous, impossible architecture. Suh calls these works, made using traditional Korean sewing techniques, 'fabric architectures'. through this process, suh can pack up and transport spaces, fulfilling his desire to 'fit my childhood home into a suitcase'. you are invited to enter the work and consider your own journeys through different spaces, types of architecture, cities and neighborhoods.
purchased poster in my room: