Do Ho Suh’s mammoth creations

Lucky for us that the Rhode Island School of Design admitted Do Ho Suh back in 1991. It’s hard to believe that it is the only American art school that would take him… an accomplished traditional painter at the time. Now, he is best known for his room-sized fabric sculptures in diaphanous polyester, his sculptures have an eerie, ghostly feel.

Now based in London, it was last year’s exhibition at Victoria Miro that really impressed us. “Passage/s” is an ongoing project that continues to grow over time. Suh recreates the architecture of places where he’s lived and works with a one-to-one scale. The see-through fabric structures bring about ideas of migration how that changes identities.

This quote by Suh sums it up perfectly, “We tend to focus on the destination all the time and forget about the in-between spaces. But without these mundane spaces that nobody really pays attention to, these grey areas, one cannot get from point a to point b.”

Do Ho Suh’s solo exhibition in Asia (at Seoul’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts) featured a life-sized replica of a home the artist lived in. The ghostly fabric sculptures embody Suh’s idea of home, known for his translucent fabrics sculptures, is currently the focus of two solo exhibition.

It’s hard to get a feeling of exactly how huge these sculptures really are. We love that we can get some perception in this photograph. The 12m x 15m installation is so enormous and complicated that that Suh employed a 3D scanning machine to ensure the dimensions were precise.

EVERY SINGLE ITEM is remade using blueprints to ensure exact measures and perfection. The amount of detailing that goes into each piece is tremendous. Each installation asks the viewer to consider their relationship to their constructed environment.