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Do Ho Suh’s ’’Perfect Homes’’ shows the thin nature of structural models
United Kingdom Architecture News - May 25, 2015 - 11:02 12307 views
Do Ho Suh: Perfect Home Installation view 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan November 23, 2012 – March 17, 2013.
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Korean artist Do Ho Suh is interested in how we interact with public space. Directed, shot, and edited by Nils Clauss, “Perfect Home” brings together several exhibitions from 2002-2012 to examine the breadth of Do Ho Suh’s immersive works. Due to the thin nature of the fabric Do Ho Suh often uses to construct his installations, the pieces are extremely difficult to capture without standing directly next to, or within. Perfect Home manages to look at the artist’s work as one might if physically in the space, producing angles that imitate a natural way of absorbing the work.
Clauss allows the audience to at first be alone with Do Ho Suh’s work, examining both minuscule details and the works from afar. At the very end of the film scenes that include others interacting with the work are introduced. These shots give the viewer a sense of how others interact with the space, and force us to share these now public works.......Continue Reading
Do Ho Suh:Fallen Star 1/5 , 2008-2011,ABS, basswood, beech, ceramic, enamel paint, glass, honeycomb board, lacquer paint, latex paint, LED lights, pinewood, plywood, resin, spruce, styrene, polycarbonate sheets and PVC sheets.
Do Ho Suh: Home Within Home Installation view,Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea November 12, 2013 – May 11, 2014; Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Do Ho Suh: Home Within Home Installation view Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea November 12, 2013 – May 11, 2014 Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Do Ho Suh: Perfect Home Installation view 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan November 23, 2012 – March 17, 2013.
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