A significant survey exhibition of works by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is coming to the Tate Trendy this spring, marking his first London solo in over twenty years. Titled The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Stroll the Home, the present traces three many years of Suh’s compelling observe, including new site-specific works to his iconic oeuvre of translucent structure. The artist takes viewers on an introspective journey that explores the multifaceted nature of residence, identification and the way we inhabit the world, culling private and collective reminiscence in a dynamic and reflective showcase.
The title of the present, Stroll the Home, attracts from an expression referring to the hanok, a conventional Korean home that may be disassembled and rebuilt at a brand new web site. Drawing on the thought of a transportable residence, Suh bears witness to a collision of structure, house, the physique and reminiscence. “The house I’m interested by just isn’t solely a bodily one, however an intangible, metaphorical and psychological one,” he expressed. “For me, ‘house’ is that which encompasses all the pieces.”
The exhibition will see a number of material replicas of the artist’s work and residing areas, together with Nest/s (2024), a colourful tunnel corridors and entryways, and for the primary time, Excellent House: London, Horsham, New York, Berlin, Windfall, Seoul (2024), an overview of the artist’s current London homestead, freckled with vibrant architectural particulars – doorknobs, mild switches and electrical sockets.
Spanning set up, sculpture, video and drawing, Stroll the Home will even function standouts resembling Who Am We? (2000), a constellation of tens of hundreds of tiny portraits collected from highschool yearbooks; the 2018 photogrammatic movie Robin Hood Gardens; and Rubbing/Loving Undertaking: Seoul House (2013-2022), a decade-long homage to conventional Korean rubbing practices, the place the artist lined everything of his childhood residence in paper and graphite impressions.
Co-curated by Nabila Abdel of the Hyundai Tate Analysis Centre and Tate Trendy’s Dina Akhmadeeva, the key exhibition marks the European enlargement of Genesis Artwork Initiatives, a wider collaboration between Genesis and the establishment, which produced Lee Bul’s Met facade fee final fall.
The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Stroll the Home can be on view in London from Could 1 to October 19. Head to the museum’s web site for extra data.
Tate Trendy
Bankside,
London SE1 9TG,
England
