Laura Cumming reviews Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time
★★★★★
Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home
A man runs along the bottom of a drawing, trailing hundreds of rainbow-coloured threads behind him. Somehow they are embedded in the paper. All connect upwards to a small wooden house with a pagoda roof that drifts in the air like a parachute behind him. Is it slowing him down, perhaps breaking a harsh landing, or might it raise him back up?
The theme of this extraordinarily beautiful exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is perfectly simple yet unendingly complex – the enigma of home. Is it a place, or a feeling, a building or a city, a temporary apartment or a vision in the head?
Image: Do Ho Suh, Staircase/s, 2019
Thread embedded in handmade cotton paper
289.5 x 177 cm (paper)
312.5 x 202 x 10 cm (framed)
Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)
© Do Ho Suh
- Doug Aitken
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Milton Avery
- Jules de Balincourt
- Ali Banisadr
- Hernan Bas
- María Berrío
- Varda Caivano
- Verne Dawson
- Stan Douglas
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- Maria Nepomuceno
- Chris Ofili
- Jorge Pardo
- Celia Paul
- Grayson Perry
- Paula Rego
- Tal R
- Conrad Shawcross
- Hedda Sterne
- Do Ho Suh
- Sarah Sze
- Adriana Varejão
- Suling Wang
- Stephen Willats
- Flora Yukhnovich
- Doug Aitken
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Milton Avery
- Jules de Balincourt
- Ali Banisadr
- Hernan Bas
- María Berrío
- Varda Caivano
- Verne Dawson
- Stan Douglas
- Elmgreen & Dragset
- Inka Essenhigh
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Barnaby Furnas
- David Harrison
- NS Harsha
- Alex Hartley
- Secundino Hernández
- Ilse D’Hollander
- Christian Holstad
- Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
- Chantal Joffe
- Isaac Julien
- Idris Khan
- Yayoi Kusama
- John Kørner
- Doron Langberg
- Wangechi Mutu
- Alice Neel
- Maria Nepomuceno
- Chris Ofili
- Jorge Pardo
- Celia Paul
- Grayson Perry
- Paula Rego
- Tal R
- Conrad Shawcross
- Hedda Sterne
- Do Ho Suh
- Sarah Sze
- Adriana Varejão
- Suling Wang
- Stephen Willats
- Flora Yukhnovich
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