LONDON.- Victoria Miro announced the representation of the acclaimed Korean artist Do Ho Suh. The gallery will show three new fabric sculptures in a special presentation at Frieze London from 14 to 17 October.
Suh is best known for his striking, monumental fabric sculptures and installations that recreate the spaces of his home and the domestic objects found within to explore issues of identity, history, space, and memory. The artist meticulously constructs proportionally exact replicas of dwelling places, architectural features, or household appliances – kitchen sinks, toilets and microwaves – from stitched planes of translucent, coloured polyester fabric. Often reflections of places the artist has inhabited, such as his childhood home or Western apartments, these delicately precise, weightless impressions seem to exist between imagination and reality.
Suh has previously spoken of the distinctive openness to the environment of Korean homes; more than repositories of personal memory or nostalgic projections, his works respond to the indistinct boundaries between psychic interior and objective exterior, which make of home an ongoing lived function rather than a physical structure.
At Frieze London, Victoria Miro will present Boiler Room: London Studio, 2015; Specimen Series: Refrigerator, Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2015 (shown above); and Specimen Series: Basin, Apartment A, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2015
Do Ho Suh (1962, Seoul, South Korea), lives and works in London, New York, and Seoul. He received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. The artist is currently exhibiting at MOCA Cleveland until 10 January 2016. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Home within Home within Home within Home within Home, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2013); Do Ho Suh: Perfect Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2012-2013); In Between, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (2012); Fallen Star, Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, California (2012); Home within Home, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2012); and Wielandstr.18, 12159, DAAD Galer ie, Germany (2011). In 2001, Suh represented Korea at the Venice Biennale and subsequently participated in the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, and the 2012 Gwangju Biennial.
Suh’s work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate, London; Leeum, Seoul; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, among others.
In addition to Victoria Miro, London, Do Ho Suh is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York/Hong Kong.
