The idea of the threshold, a central tenet of Suh’s work, is paramount in Door Locks: London, New York and Seoul Homes, 2020. Meticulously replicating fixtures of the places in which he has lived, such as his childhood home and Western apartments, the work gives form to ideas about migration, transience and shifting identities, blurring the boundaries of geographical distance.

Born in 1962 in South Korea, Do Ho Suh currently lives and works in London. Suh’s work is included in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and Tate, London, among many others. Suh represented Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2018, a film by the artist was commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as part of its presentation Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, in collaboration with La Biennale di Venezia. Suh was awarded the 2017 Ho-Am Prize, Korea’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize.