Gate

Do-Ho Suh investigates notions of (personal) space, its relationship to individuality, collectivity and anonymity – molded by his experience of relocating from Korea to the United States – and the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Gate takes up the subject of architectural representation. Transferred into the dream-like state of a shadow reality through the use of transparent fabric, a traditional Korean gate is suspended from the ceiling of the gallery space. Gate memorializes a cultural and personal attachment but in such a pared-down, emblematic way that private narrative disperses. Its link to an original or fixed location is diluted, until site-specificity becomes portable.