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Do Ho Suh

London

Dec 3, 2020–Feb 20, 2021

Installation by Do Ho Suh

No.9 Cork Street

Mayfair, London W1S 3LL

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce a presentation of iconic works by acclaimed Korean artist Do Ho Suh. Showcasing the range of Suh’s practice--including large and small-scale architectural fabric works, thread drawings, watercolors, and bronze sculpture--this marks the second presentation in the gallery’s newly opened London space and the first of Suh’s in London since 2017. Notably, this presentation also marks twenty years since Suh’s first exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in the United States.

Born in Seoul and now based in London, Suh is known for a multidisciplinary practice that confronts questions of home, memory, marginality and the correlation between psychic and physical space. His autobiographical fabric sculptures recreate, to scale, spaces of his former residences and studios. Reflecting an itinerant life, these highly detailed portraits feature buildings, rooms and domestic objects from past and present homes in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York.

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin London
Installation Views: 1 of 4
Wall work by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Intercoms, London Home & Studio, New York Home, Studio & Corridor, Berlin Home, and Providence Home; Lighting Fixtures, New York Studio & Corridors, Seoul Home, Berlin Home, Providence Home; Fuse Boxes, London Studio, New York Home, Studio & Corridor, 2019

Watercolor by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Artland, 2019

Installation by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Hub-1, Entrance, 296-8, Sungbook-Dong, Sungboo-Ku, Seoul, Korea, 2018

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin London
Installation Views: 1 of 3
Sculpture by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Karma (4 columns), 2015

Sculpture by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Karma (single column), 2015

Watercolor by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Undressing, 2019

Work on paper by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Family Cuddle, 2020

Watercolor by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Dreaming Home, 2019

Watercolor by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Undressing, 2020

Portrait of Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, Korea; lives and works in London, United Kingdom) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Suh is best known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale his past and present homes and studios in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York.

Suh is interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical forms, and examines how the body relates to, inhabits, and interacts with that space. He is particularly interested in domestic space and the way the concept of home can be articulated through architecture that has a specific location, form, and history. For Suh, the spaces we inhabit also contain psychological energy, and in his work he makes visible those markers of memories, personal experiences, and a sense of security, regardless of geographic location.

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