"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home" (1999)
"Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home," 1999
Silk, 149 x 240 x 240 inches
Installation view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 2002
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor and a gift of the artist
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Silk, 149 x 240 x 240 inches
Installation view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 2002
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor and a gift of the artist
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
"My Korean house project was about transporting space from one place to the other, a way of dealing with cultural displacement. I don’t really get homesick that much, but I’ve noticed that I have this longing for a particular space and just want to recreate it or bring it wherever I go. So the choice of material was fabric. I had to make something light and transportable, something that you can fold and put in a suitcase and bring with me all the time. That’s actually what happened when I made ‘Seoul Home/L.A. Home.’"
- Do-Ho Suh
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