My second post about Walk the House by Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern further explores the artist’s concepts of home, place, memory and time.
In this piece the artist made a rubbing of his childhood home in Seoul decades after leaving Korea. The house has, in his words “always followed me”.
Not only is this a rubbing of the entire house, it was then left exposed to the elements for a gestation of 9 months. After that the drawing was peeled off and reconstructed onto an aluminium frame.
I enjoyed the composite drawings in thread – they have a child-like playfulness, an almost playground quality about them.
The large drawing below is aptly titled Writing/ people, reflecting back on the wallpaper (see my previous post).
Coming out of the exhibition I came across this sculpture, Public Figures.
The plinth is empty, the heroism happening underneath as the base is upheld by a group of anonymous individuals. I recommend watching the video of the sculpture in movement at the show. This is the only one I could find online.
