“Is home a place, a feeling, or an idea?” That’s the lofty but immanently relatable query on the coronary heart of Do Ho Suh’s main survey open now at Tate Fashionable. The London-based Korean artist (beforehand) explores notions of belonging, connection, consolation, safety, and familiarity in large-scale installations that replicate his personal properties in Seoul, London, and New York, amongst a spread of vibrant multimedia works.
Suh is thought for his use of gossamer material to create immersive, monumental installations. In The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Stroll the Home, the artist “examines the intricate relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories and moments that make us who we are,” the museum says.
Guests are invited to stroll by way of “Nest/s,” for instance, an expansive assemblage of colourful, sheer textile buildings that hyperlink collectively to type a passageway or conduit. Because the boundaries between inside and exterior are blurred, we’re invited to expertise structure from the attitude of motion and notion, highlighting how all of our interactions with different properties or locations are inherently linked.
Points round shelter, security, and neighborhood are inextricably tied to how we understand residence, particularly when for a lot of all over the world, these fundamental wants are in fixed peril or upended with out warning. “Suh asks timely questions about the enigma of home, identity, and how we move through and inhabit the world around us,” a press release says.
The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Stroll the Home continues in London by way of October 19. Plan your go to on the museum’s web site, and observe updates on Suh’s Instagram.
