Seoul Home
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: Seoul Home (2013-2022)
Suh conjures his childhood home in Seoul – the hanok he said “has 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 labor-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 aluminum frame. Through this process, he is interrogating ‘how and whether the site is movable’. The title “Rubbing/Loving”, refers to the intimacy of the rubbing process for Suh, as an act of being attentive. It also plays on the lack of distinction between the letters R and L in the Korean language, which Suh recognizes when switching between Korean and English.
Source: Info in the exhibition, right next to the work
Seoul Home
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: Seoul Home (2013-2022)
Suh conjures his childhood home in Seoul – the hanok he said “has 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 labor-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 aluminum frame. Through this process, he is interrogating ‘how and whether the site is movable’. The title “Rubbing/Loving”, refers to the intimacy of the rubbing process for Suh, as an act of being attentive. It also plays on the lack of distinction between the letters R and L in the Korean language, which Suh recognizes when switching between Korean and English.
Source: Info in the exhibition, right next to the work