"Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh
30/05/2015.
[Kanazawa] Japan
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Film of the exhibition "Perfect House" of the artist Do Ho Suh, created by Nils Clauss, with some of the works displayed at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
Image of the exhibition "Perfect House" by Do Ho Suh at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa. Video Screenshot.
The Korean artist Do Ho Suh is famous for creating real-size replicas of different intimate spaces with which he has a special connection. As he says in an interview for the Tate Modern:
"You experience life moving through a series of spaces."
With a particular interest in transitional spaces such as bridges, stairs and doors, elements that are both connection and separation, Suh's sculptures transform the place and the way visitors appreciate it. The fabric is transparent enough to allow to see the envelope space through the sculpture, so that spaces are seen by the visitor in a very different way, giving it a different quality.
This video shows some of the works of Suh displayed at the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa, Japan, under the name of "Perfect Home". Due to the fabric used for his installations, the work of Do Ho Suh may be difficult to capture without being physically next to it, even so, in this case, the video directed, shot, and edited by Nils Clauss, comes close to the real experience.
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Executive Producer
Do Ho Suh
Producer
Paul Choi
Production Assistant
Hiromi Kurosawa, Kenzo Kodama
Director, Cinematographer & Editor
Nils Clauss
Steadicam Operator
Wonho Son
Assistant Camera
Sungil Lee
Graphic Design
In-ah Shin
Music
“Like caustic lights bending backwards” by Offthesky
DO-HO SUH
Do-Ho Suh (b.1962, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do-Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.
In 2001, Suh represented Korea at the Venice Biennale and subsequently participated in the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, and the 2012 Gwangju Biennial. Do-Ho Suh was named WSJ. Magazine's 2013 Innovator of the Year in Art.
His work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate, London; Leeum, Seoul; Artsonje Center, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, among many others. The artist lives and works in New York, London, and Seoul.
