Childhood homes can carry an allure, once cavernous spaces that seem to shrink as you grow older, before leaving them behind forever to exist only in your memory. Not so, with artist Do Ho Suh, who returned to his childhood home in Seoul to cover the outside entirely in paper and then do a painstaking rubbing of the entire thing.
The paper was left on for nine months and then peeled away. In the gallery, it has been put together and held with aluminium rods to perfectly recreate the building for a piece called Rubbing/Loving Seoul Home 2013-22. It is one of a number of jaw-dropping works here that look at space and time and how we carry places with us through our lives; usually psychologically, or spiritually, but literally too in Suh’s case.
