Do Ho Suh's 'Passage/s' exhibition explores architectural memory and identity through fabric installations
At Victoria Miro's Wharf Road gallery in London, Do Ho Suh's solo exhibition 'Passage/s' showcases a significant fabric installation that merges nine interstitial spaces from various cities, including London, Seoul, Berlin, and New York, crafted between 2015 and 2016. This corridor-like creation, constructed from translucent polyester and steel pipes, evokes memories of space. Suh, who represented South Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, is originally from Seoul and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. The exhibition will be open until 18 March 2017, after which it will move to Lehmann Maupin in Hong Kong from 20 March to 13 May, exploring themes of cultural identity and global citizenship.
Key facts
- Do Ho Suh's exhibition 'Passage/s' is on view at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, London through 18 March 2017
- The exhibition will travel to Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong from 20 March to 13 May 2017
- Suh represented Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001
- He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University in the US
- Suh's fabric installations recreate spaces from London, Seoul, Berlin, and New York
- His 'Rubbing/Loving Project' involved covering his New York apartment at 348 West 22nd Street over three years
- Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse from the fourth century BC found in a Danish bog in 1950
- Francis Fukuyama published 'The End of History?' essay in The National Interest in 1989
Entities
Artists
- Do Ho Suh
- Francis Fukuyama
- Victor Hugo
Institutions
- Victoria Miro
- Lehmann Maupin
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Yale University
- Venice Biennale
- Singapore Tyler Print Institute
- ArtReview
- The National Interest
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Hong Kong
- China
- Seoul
- South Korea
- Berlin
- Germany
- New York
- USA
- Rhode Island
- Denmark
- Singapore