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Do Ho Suh

Paratrooper-I

New York

Apr 30–Jun 5, 2004

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin New York

540 W 26th St

New York, NY 10001

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of Paratrooper-I, a new sculptural installation by Do-Ho Suh. This will mark the artist's third solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

More than 3,000 different signatures-– names of family, friends and acquaintances collected from personal journals and exhibition guest books– have been hand-stitched onto a thin, suspended layer of linen for Paratrooper-I. The long, pink, loose threads extending from each name are bound together and held by a small, polished stainless steel paratrooper standing atop a concrete base. The figure tugs at the threads as if collecting a deflated or caught parachute.

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin New York
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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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Paratrooper-I | Lehmann Maupin