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Last chance to see the largest European exhibition to date of Do Ho Suh's work on paper |
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Do Ho Suh, Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London, and Victoria Miro, London and Venice. Photography by Jeon Taeg Su © Do Ho Suh.
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EDINBURGH.- Immerse yourself in the imagination of one of the worlds leading contemporary artists, Do Ho Suh (born 1962, Seoul), at the National Galleries of Scotland. Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time is the largest European exhibition to date of the artists work on paper, with artworks spanning 25 years of Suhs career.
This major solo exhibition by the South Korean-born, London-based artist is free to visit, taking over the entire ground floor of Modern One in Edinburgh until 1 September 2024. With over 100 works on display, many never seen before, the artist poses questions such as Where and when does home exist? and What defines our sense of place?.
Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time explores the integral role that drawing and paper play in Suhs work, focusing on his collaborative methods, experimental techniques, and innovative use of materials. Drawing is the foundation of the artists multidisciplinary practice. It acts as a springboard that propels ideas formed on a blank page into creations of astonishing variety and ambition. The exhibition travels forwards and backwards in time, organised according to the artists transformative approaches to drawing as a toolkit with endless possibilities.
Visitors will discover Suhs compelling and technically innovative thread drawings, in which multicolored threads are embedded in handmade paper to create sewn images of some of the artists most iconic motifs. Thread takes on a new form as a mode of drawing, mirroring the use of fabric in the artists sculptures. The thread drawings are created at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore, where Do Ho has been working collaboratively with the Creative Workshop team for over a decade; experimenting together to produce his works on paper. Works on display from this series include the dazzling, multicolored Staircase/s (2019); a seemingly impossible vertical stack of colour, winding and repeating the communal staircase from Suhs New York apartment building, the embroidery process creating a cloud of loose threads in its wake.
These monumental thread drawings are being exhibited alongside animations, architectural rubbings, paper sculptures, printmaking and watercolours, including works such as A Perfect Home (1999); a simple, even childlike, drawing of a tiny home and garden, perched in an impossible location. This watercolour was the starting point for the artists longest running research project, The Bridge Project, which explores the concept of his perfect home. The project considers what form this home might take and questions whether such a thing exists.
For Suh, its located in the centre of a bridge that connects Seoul, New York and London, the three cities he has called home. The Bridge Project demonstrates that a rudimentary sketch has the power to develop into something far greater. A selection of the artists sketchbooks also are being shown publicly for the first time, giving visitors an insight into the personal, unconstrained spaces in which Suh explores his past, present and future.
Using both practical problem solving and imaginative sketching, drawing helps the artist to envision new relationships between architecture and the body, and new ways of challenging and re-defining shared public spaces. The exhibition also includes an immersive installation of Suhs famed hubs; life-size sculptures that recreate transitional spaces thresholds, corridors and doorways from sites meaningful to the artist in colourful fabric. Visitors to the exhibition can enter and move through these innovative installations, giving a real-scale sense of the places which hold significance to the artist. The translucency of the fabric expands on the subjectivity of memory, and the rigidity of Western architecture in comparison to traditional Korean buildings. Suhs Fabric Architecture can be packed down and transported; a means of carrying home with you.
Paper is also treated as sculptural material. Tracing Time includes a series of Suhs rubbings; works made using a physically challenging process of coating the entire interiors of rooms in paper, which is then carefully rubbed in pencil and chalk to create an impression of the original spaces.
Suhs engaging and imaginative artworks collectively ask questions about home and identity, inviting visitors to consider their own answer. Individual experiences of what home is on a personal level can create a fundamental part of who we are, often influenced by day-to-day life and deepest memories. Drawing is Do Ho Suhs way of navigating the world, capturing overlooked details, and making sense of how we relate to one another. Tracing Time gathers many threads of the artists work and its celebration of human collaboration and creative networks.
Do Ho Suh said: I am thrilled to be presenting my first exhibition in Scotland at the National Galleries. Paper has been a foundational element of my practice for as long as Ive been working. Its more than a medium for me and Ive sometimes felt that in the West, papers strength literally and symbolically is underestimated. For me, it has sculptural, architectural and bodily qualities. It works in part because of its mercurial capacities the ways in which it can absorb, and integrate with, other materials, rather than merely providing a surface for them to sit on. Its exciting to have this element of my practice engaged with so sensitively and I cannot wait to share this body of work at Modern One.
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