Architectural Fabric Sculptures By Do Ho Suh

It’s possible to read many elements into Residence Inside Residence, the ethereal set up by Korean-born sculptor Do Ho Suh, at the moment on view at the Museum of Contemporary and Contemporary Art in Seoul. But duality, and its accompanying tensions, are plainly a central theme for the Korean-American transplant. Duh, whose favored medium is translucent silk, has replicated, to jaw-dropping scale, two seminal residences from his life: his childhood home in Korea, and the 3-story Providence, Rhode Island townhouse which became his home upon immigrating to the U.S. The set up merges the two homes, with the modestly sized Korean residence floating in mid-air, suspended from the ceiling of the mammoth American residence which fully encases it. Residence Within Residence, Duh’s greatest sculpture to date, is dreamy and wistful, fleeting and soulful—much like houses and properties, and the lives lived within them.

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