Do Ho Suh creates colourful structures to represent his experience of migration
Korean artist Do Ho Suh references the different places he has lived and worked with this colourful installation at London's Victoria Miro Gallery, which explores ideas about identity and migration.
The Passage/s exhibition gives physical form to Suh's idea of life as a journey ? his installation is designed as a sequence of passageways that each represent a different place he has occupied.
"I see life as a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination," said Suh. "We tend to focus on the destination all the time and forget about the in-between spaces."
The main part of the exhibition is a one-to-one scale structure made from panels of colourful translucent fabric, named Hub.
Each section references a different place that the artist has lived and worked, including his childhood home in South Korea, and various apartments and studios since then.
Following his move to London five years ago, Suh created the Hub, London Apartment structure, which is a partial representation of his home in the UK capital.
This section is joined with nine other structures, which come together to create a walk-through installation spanning the length of the 25-metre-long gallery.
"To move through these delicately precise, weightless impressions is to experience a distinct emotional register, a sense of being in flux, crossing boundaries and moving between psychological states," said the gallery.
This theme is also explored in animations displayed around th...
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