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Do Ho Suh

Hayward Gallery

London

May 28–Aug 25, 2008

Installation view of Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture at Hayward Gallery

London

As the highlight of the Hayward’s 40th anniversary season, ten artists from around the world transform the entire gallery in Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, running from 28 May – 25 August 2008.

The Hayward’s huge spaces are filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which spill onto the three outdoor sculpture terraces, radically altering the interior and exterior of the gallery. Inside a village made from 250 doll’s houses and a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster are amongst the installations that both enchant and disconcert visitors. Outside on the gallery’s sculpture terraces, installations include a huge iridescent observatory and a working cinema will alter the exterior face of The Hayward.

Installation view of Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture at Hayward Gallery
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About the Artist

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.

Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture | Lehmann Maupin