Lehmann Maupin is pleased to a present Passage/s, an exhibition of new work by Do Ho Suh. The internationally renowned South Korean artist is best known for his installations, drawings, sculptures, and films, which often reflect on themes of home, displacement, memory, and individuality that evolve from his personal experiences and family history. For this Hong Kong exhibition, Suh will premiere a three-channel video installation, Passage/s: The Pram Project, as well as new drawings. 

Passage/s: The Pram Project captures the artist and his young daughters on outings together in their London neighborhood. Shot using GoPro cameras affixed to the sides and top of a pram, the video offers the children’s perspective of the city. The ambient noises of the street and the rattling of the pram punctuate the conversations and chatter between Suh and his daughters. The children’s excitement imbues the dreary London cityscape with a curiosity and wonder shared by Suh, whose worldview had also been recently changed by fatherhood. Suh utilizes film editing—shifting between English and Korean and splicing in imagery from Suh’s hometown of Seoul—to comment on his experience of crossing cultural and geographical boundaries, and to express the transient nature of the Suh family’s life. Each of the three channels depicts a different viewpoint from the pram, projected simultaneously, for an immersive perspective and intimate experience of this work, emulative of the artist’s own relationship with his daughters.