Do Ho Suh: On Site

In conjunction with the exhibition Do Ho Suh , the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) presents Do Ho Suh: On Site , a program of documentary films that record the sites of the artist’s works, offering a multidimensional perspective on his oeuvre. Centered on Suh’s artistic attitude, the films trace the process by which a work comes into being through relationships that weave together space and people, from site-specific installations around the world that could not be brought into the exhibition, to works grounded in diverse collaborations. The program first introduces the making of public artworks created for specific places. In-Between Hotel parked in the alleys and parking lots of Gwangju, run amid the hospitality of its neighbors. Karma , a large bronze sculpture, was cast and erected outdoors at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Other works posed the formidable structural challenge of moving an entire house. In Fallen Star , commissioned for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego, a house modeled on a modest New England cottage in Rhode Island, where the artist first lived as a student, perches on the engineering building. It looks as if it had ridden a tornado across the continent from the East Coast and landed there. Bridging Home, Liverpool and Bridging Home, London show a hanok, resembling the house where the artist was born and raised, descending precariously into the city centers of different cultures. The negotiations these works undergo with their host cities reveal the social consensus involved in bringing a house, as a work of art, into an unfamiliar place.