I dream in another language

Do Ho Suh

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York

Feb 19–Aug 1, 2027February 19–August 1, 2027

New York, New York

I dream in another language | Do Ho Suh will be the first major solo museum exhibition in New York dedicated to Korean artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul). Spanning more than three decades of the artist’s practice, the presentation will include drawings, sculptures, and large-scale installations that intimately explore how we move through different places, carry memories, and build communities.

Comprising more than 50 existing and new works, drawn from loans and works in the Guggenheim New York collection, the exhibition will trace Suh’s investigation into the body and, by extension, architecture as both physical structure and psychological space that hold individual experience and collective imagination.

“In 1997 I began renting a half-basement studio apartment in Chelsea. That space remains the home I have lived in the longest throughout my life. To debut the rubbings I made of that building’s interiors at the Guggenheim, in the city I called home for so long, is poignant, as well as conceptually interesting for me. My work is as concerned with space and movement as it is [with] roots or home. New York brought so many of my ideas into focus and I remain indebted to the city always.” —Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Some/One, 2014

“Suh’s work possesses a poetic capacity to move beyond the particularities and limitations of any specific language, culture, or knowledge, speaking to a human condition that anyone who encounters it can recognize. It offers a picture of what it means to course through this world as one, as other, and as us. It feels particularly apt that the New York 'Rubbing/Loving' installation will have its world premiere at the Guggenheim. 'Rubbing/Loving' is a work about arriving and leaving, loving and mourning. It is a love letter to New York.” —Kyung An, Curator, Asian Art Initiative, and Head, Global Exhibitions Initiative, Guggenheim Museum

Do Ho Suh

Family Cuddle, 2020

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.