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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Laura Cumming

Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home

Do Ho Suh, Haunting Home, 2019.
‘Everything he makes is delicate yet tensile, light but profound’: Haunting Home, 2019, thread embedded in handmade cotton paper. © Do Ho Suh, courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute Photograph: © Do Ho Suh,

A man runs along the bottom of a drawing, trailing hundreds of rainbow-coloured threads behind him. Somehow they are embedded in the paper. All connect upwards to a small wooden house with a pagoda roof that drifts in the air like a parachute behind him. Is it slowing him down, perhaps breaking a harsh landing, or might it raise him back up?

The theme of this extraordinarily beautiful exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is perfectly simple yet unendingly complex – the enigma of home. Is it a place, or a feeling, a building or a city, a temporary apartment or a vision in the head?

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