Aami Suh, Omi Suh and Do Ho Suh, Do Ho Suh and Children: Artland, 2016- ongoing. Children’s modeling clay, Dimension variable. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. © Aami Suh, Omi Suh and Do Ho SuhThe Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) presents “Do Ho Suh and Children: Artland” through March 12, 2023. For the past seven years, Suh and his family have been working on ArtLand, a sculpture composed of modeling clay for children. It is a miniature version of a fantasy world that has a distinct nature from our own and exists in children’s imaginations. The artist invites children to participate in building this microcosm.
The exhibition attempts to show that children’s creativity and imagination, developed through play, can surpass that of adults. Through the children’s imaginations, ArtLand is anticipated to grow indefinitely into an unpredictable world of the imagination.
The South Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962), who currently lives and works in London, is best known for his fabric sculptures that recreate his former homes in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York on different scales. Using sculpture, installation, drawing, and film, he explores the concept and memory of home, the relationship between architecture and the body, and cultural displacement. His works are in the collections of numerous museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, the Leeum Museum of Art, and the Mori Art Museum.
