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Do Ho Suh

  • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (NSW) 140 George Street The Rocks, NSW, 2000 Australia (map)

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is presenting the first solo exhibition from South Korean artist Do Ho Suh staged in the southern hemisphere. He is known for his large-scale sculptures and architectural installations created from fine textiles in bright colours, and the exhibition spans three decades with some works having an interactive quality. Do Ho Suh has lived and worked in Seoul, New York, Berlin and London. It is a Sydney-exclusive exhibition, guaranteed to awe and excite.

Do Ho Suh’s extensive body of work is characterised by an ongoing meditation on notions of belonging, identity and home. Encompassing portraiture and architectural references, Suh’s works have a distinctive biographical dimension evoking the various spaces he has lived and worked in, including Seoul, New York, Berlin, and London.

Scale is central to Suh’s artworks, which vary from small, singular household objects – door handles, plugs and switches, light bulbs – through to full scale replicas of the domestic spaces and studios he has inhabited over the course of his life. Realised in diverse materials, from steel military ‘dog tags’ to fabric, these intimate and evocative artworks can be walked around, through and within.

4 November - 26 February

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