Do Ho Suh has long ruminated on the idea of home as both a physical structure and a lived experience. Main Entrance, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2016, is a large gelatin drawing based on the entrance of the artist’s former home and studio in New York City. This work was created using a process in which the artist’s signature architectural pieces are compressed into large-scale two-dimensional drawings. Using gelatin tissue, the works are sewn in the same way as Suh’s architectural fabric pieces. Once immersed in water, however, the gelatin dissolves, fusing with the paper to leave an image in which the threads appear like a skeletal framework against the coloured form of the object. Residual yet highly visceral, these works draw parallels between architectural space, clothing and the body, making explicit Suh’s fascination with the interconnected spaces we inhabit while continuing his career-long investigation into the porous boundaries of identity.

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.