Switches, Handles, Air Vents & more
In ‘The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House’, Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings in this major survey exhibition.
Is home a place, a feeling, or an idea? Suh asks timely questions about the enigma of home, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us.
With immersive artworks exploring belonging, collectivity and individuality, connection and disconnection, Suh examines the intricate relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories and the moments that make us who we are.
Source: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/the-genesis-exhibiti...
Rubbing/Loving Project: Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (2013-2024)
Suh made these rubings of objects in his rented home in New York, a building he lived in for over 20 years. The rubbings are arranged by type, such as air vents, bathroom fixtures and light switches. Before moving out of the apartment, Suh received permission to rub the surfaces of the building’s interiors. His landlord and friend, Arthur Henoch, who had lived on the floor abov, had died with dementia, and the subject of memory loss preoccupied Suh as he created the work. ‘The instant I have masked [a] surface, I can no longer remember exactly what’s behind it. I’m aware that I know what’s under the paper, but I can’t have access to the memory. When I start rubbing, things rush back.’ Suh used a different color to create the paper traces for each section. A physically and emotionally exhausting, months-long task, the process becomes one of memorializing spaces.
Source: Info in the exhibition, right next to the work
Switches, Handles, Air Vents & more
In ‘The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House’, Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings in this major survey exhibition.
Is home a place, a feeling, or an idea? Suh asks timely questions about the enigma of home, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us.
With immersive artworks exploring belonging, collectivity and individuality, connection and disconnection, Suh examines the intricate relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories and the moments that make us who we are.
Source: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/the-genesis-exhibiti...
Rubbing/Loving Project: Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (2013-2024)
Suh made these rubings of objects in his rented home in New York, a building he lived in for over 20 years. The rubbings are arranged by type, such as air vents, bathroom fixtures and light switches. Before moving out of the apartment, Suh received permission to rub the surfaces of the building’s interiors. His landlord and friend, Arthur Henoch, who had lived on the floor abov, had died with dementia, and the subject of memory loss preoccupied Suh as he created the work. ‘The instant I have masked [a] surface, I can no longer remember exactly what’s behind it. I’m aware that I know what’s under the paper, but I can’t have access to the memory. When I start rubbing, things rush back.’ Suh used a different color to create the paper traces for each section. A physically and emotionally exhausting, months-long task, the process becomes one of memorializing spaces.
Source: Info in the exhibition, right next to the work