South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is known for his large-scale sculptures and architectural installations, which address the complex relationships between the body, memory, and space.
This survey exhibition spans three decades, from the 1990s to the present. It encompasses key works which explore diasporic experience, belonging, identity, and home across a wide range of media: sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, and video – from steel military “dog tags” to translucent red fabric to mulberry paper, these intimate and evocative artworks can be walked around, through, and within.
Do Ho Suh, Hub series, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2022, polyester fabric, and stainless steel. © the artist. Photograph: Anna Kučera. Courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Exhibition highlights include the inaugural presentation of Do Ho Suh’s Rubbing/Loving Project: Seoul Home, 2013–2022. In this ambitious project the artist has rendered the exterior of his parents’ home in Seoul, a traditional Korean hanok house with its characteristic tiled, curved roof, through a series of paper rubbings; and reconstructed at full scale for this showcase.
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
4 November 2022 to 27 February 2023
Sydney
