Do-Ho Suh Explores Space and Identity at Venice Biennale

Korean artist Do-Ho Suh (born 1962 in Seoul, lives in New York) presents multiple works at the 2001 Venice Biennale, curated by Harald Szeemann. His installations interrogate spatial perception, cultural displacement, and the tension between individual and collective identity. Key works include 'Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home,' a life-size silk replica of his childhood home suspended from the ceiling; 'Some/One,' a monumental sculpture made of thousands of military dog tags; 'Public Figures,' a crowd of bronze figures holding a pedestal; 'Floor,' 180,000 PVC figures supporting glass panels; and 'Who Am We?,' a wallpaper of tiny oval portraits from his Korean high school yearbook. Suh's work challenges Western monument traditions and explores how architecture shapes behavior. He also represents Korea with a new version of 'Public Figures' outside the Korean Pavilion and an installation 'Some/One' at the Whitney Museum's Philip Morris branch on April 18, 2001. His recent solo exhibitions include Lehmann Maupin Gallery (New York, 2000), Korean Cultural Center (Los Angeles, 1999), and NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo, 1999-2000).