Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh is a South Korean artist who works with installation, sculpture, and textiles. In his work, he explores themes such as identity, space, migration, and memory.

An important project within his practice is Walk the House. In this work, he creates transparent, life-sized reconstructions of the spaces he has lived in. These architectural structures are made from thin fabric, which makes them feel both present and at the same time fragile and temporary. They resemble real spaces, but they are not. This creates a sense of ambiguity that makes you start to question what you are actually seeing, and what “home” means to you. Is it the physical place itself, or is it the personal experience and memories that make a place feel like home?

This connects to my own practice, in which I explore how inner experiences and memory influence the way we look at things and assign meaning to what we see.