Do Ho Suh

To deal with the issues of longing for home, the artist has built a replica in fabric of his parents home which he could carry in a suitcase. His use of filmy see through fabrics in his representation of architectural spaces seem to make them ephemeral and not real, but there as a ghost or thought of a space. This transformed idea reflects how the artist  felt belonging in the original space and time when he was present in it. It fulfils his wish to inhabit that space again, even if it is only in its whimsical  reflection and to have  that moment and that space accessible always…