'PASSAGE/S' - BY DO HO SUH
Last week I made a first time visit to the Victoria Miro Gallery, it was a must on the to do list as I knew it was the last week to see Do Ho Suh’s latest art installation – Passage/s.
Suh explores ideas of identity and migration through this collection. More specifically, with his 1:1 scale installation a designed continuation of storytelling passageways.
“I see life as a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination” – Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh’s work reflects the forms and
interiors of spaces he once lived or spent time in. From his childhood home in
South Korea, previous studio spaces to his present day apartment in London. Using
a variety of vibrant colours of translucent gelatin tissue fabric over the
skeletal structures to differentiate each sector Do has created a thought
provoking piece for the public to interact with. Walking through the installation
I resonated with the artist’s reoccurring theme and the relevance of the in-between
spaces we enter to get to where we are eventually heading.
“Without these mundane spaces that nobody
really pays attention to, these grey areas, one cannot get from point A to
point B.”
Something that really caught my eye was the
threshold and change of dimension of all nine passageways and how the artist
has played with the boundaries of public and private spaces. I also noticed the
intricate detail of everything such as the fire warning plaques, electrical
appliances sockets, the window lock patterns and door features. Nothing has been
forgotten by the artist, everything whether consciously or not had been
observed.
Again this got me thinking about the
process towards any type of journey or goals we as humans set upon ourselves.
These small (in-between) steps, as irrelevant as they can seem, are more
important than we know. Without them where would we be? Or more correctly where
would we be going?
“We tend to focus on the destination all
the time and forget about the in between spaces.”
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