Do Ho Suh

Memory as architecture

Do Ho Suh is a South Korean artist whose work explores home, migration, and personal history through sculpture, installation, and drawing. He is widely known for full-scale fabric reconstructions of his past residences—apartments, corridors, door frames—rendered in translucent polyester.

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These ghostly architectures fold, pack, and travel, turning the idea of home into something both intimate and transportable. Stitching becomes a structural and emotional line.

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Do Ho Suh also creates cast objects, drawings, and floor-based works that map the imprint of bodies within institutional or domestic space.

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Do Ho Suh is a South Korean artist known for translucent fabric architectures that explore home, memory, and migration.

Do Ho Suh is a South Korean artist known for fabric-based architectural replicas that explore memory, home, and migration.

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