Moca cleveland do ho suh biography

Museum of Contemporary Art - Cleveland

By Tim Hadfield

Hauntingly beautiful, Do Ho Suh’s installation and exhibition at MOCA Cleveland indelibly fixes itself into collective memory. This show, comprised of diverse works addressing the meaning of home, habitation, relocation and identity engages the peripatetic life of the artist.

Having originally moved to the United States from South Korea in 1991, Suh now lives in New York, London and Seoul.

“It sounds like such a cliché, but for me home is ultimately where the heart is,” says Suh after over three decades of international travel and relocation. The installation explores, through mixed-media works on paper, “rubbings” derived from surfaces of former homes, and “specimen” sculptures, Suh’s life.

The centerpiece, Apartment A,348 West 22^nd Street, is a stunning, same-scale reconstruction in translucent polyester fabric of two adjoining apartments when the artist lived Do Ho Suh - Artists - Lehmann Maupin GOR