‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home
13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com

‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home

The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has livedWhen Do Ho Suh was a young boy in Seoul in the 1970s, his father decided to build a family home based on a hanok – a traditional Korean timber house with a curved tiled roof. The one he chose as his model stood in the gardens of the imperial palace and had been built for King Sunjo in 1878.“My father was a painter who had modernised Korean art,
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