Tate Modern is currently presenting a landmark exhibition of Do Ho Suh’s practice, marking the first major solo showing of his work in London for a generation. The artist invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings, asking questions about home, memory, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. The exhibition surveys the breadth and depth of Suh’s practice over the last three decades, spanning locations including Seoul, New York, and London – the three cities he has called home, and featuring new site-specific works on display for the first time.
The exhibition’s title ‘Walk the House’ is drawn from a Korean expression Suh heard during the construction of his childhood home in Seoul referring to the hanok – a traditional Korean house that could be disassembled, transported and reassembled at a new site, a process imagined as ‘walking the house’. Reflecting this idea of a transportable home, Suh’s immersive works examine the relationship between architecture, the body and memory, as well as how we carry multiple places with us across space and time. The artist has stated: ‘The space …
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Image above: Do Ho Suh. Nest/s, 2024. © Do Ho Suh.