Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity.  His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.




This silk homes bring to mind the spider webb. Silk in this instance and so elaborated as to make the times of walls, windows and homely details almos falling to the ground as for its delicate materiality. The translucency as a homely quality challenges our notions of the form, that of housing, or stairs and floors. What holds us together seems as fragile as it really is yet by holding us long enough we like to think of them as everlasting. The fabrics made out of threads convey the individual and the collective, his shift and play with the one and many is constant through out his work. Yet if you pull one the whole thing may fall apart. 
The man made of many strings and many suits; as one arrives to this moment having worn many suits we are made of many us and we are held together by those memories and lived experiences, the people that have gone by are also here and we all hold a string tied to those gone. 
Really beautiful work.

1942, New York - Mile of String, Marcel Duchamp

In 1942, Andre Breton organised a retrospective exhibition of Surrealist art in New York: First Papers of Surrealism. For the vernissage Marcel Duchamp created this installation – a gigantic web – called the Mile of String. He and Breton furthermore arranged for a number of children to ball in the room thereby making it very difficult for the guests to see the paintings.

The gallery space, such a predetermined expectation. And Duchamp stays as the first to play on expecatations and challenge every inch of them. From then on what we see are replays of what his first attempt produced. More soon ...



Sophia Dixon Dillo


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Tokujin Yoshioka



Tornado, Tokujin Yoshioka's installation at Design Miami 2007 was inspired in the natural phenomena the its title states. Transparent straws can be thought as large scale fibers that traced the passing high speed winds. Large scale fibers that do not tangle or a microscopic view of crystals.



www.tokujin.com