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Do Ho Suh — Leaving Home
Do Ho Suh

Leaving Home

2024

Rendered in watercolour and pencil on an intimate sheet measuring just 14.8 × 10 cm, "Leaving Home" distills Do Ho Suh's lifelong preoccupation with displacement, memory, and the psychological weight of domestic space into a work of striking quiet intensity. The small scale is itself a statement, collapsing architecture and emotion into something held, portable, and profoundly personal. Suh brings to paper the same conceptual rigour that defines his large-scale fabric installations, here allowing the translucency of watercolour to evoke the fragile, permeable nature of home as both physical structure and felt experience. Suh's practice has long interrogated what it means to carry a place within oneself across cultural and geographical borders, drawing on his own experience of moving between Seoul and New York. In "Leaving Home," that tension between rootedness and transit feels especially concentrated. The pencil's precision and the wash of watercolour suggest simultaneously something recorded and something dissolving, the act of departure held in suspension. Works on paper by Suh occupy a distinctive position within his output, offering a more immediate, hand-held intimacy than his monumental installations while remaining fully engaged with the same philosophical terrain. Signed by the artist and offered through Victoria Miro, this 2024 work arrives at a moment of continued international recognition for Suh. Its modest dimensions make it exceptionally suitable for private collection, inviting close, repeated looking. For collectors drawn to art that thinks seriously about memory, migration, and belonging, "Leaving Home" is a quietly authoritative object, one that rewards sustained attention far beyond what its scale might initially suggest.

Medium
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Do Ho Suh, Leaving Home, 2024

Rendered in watercolour and pencil on an intimate sheet measuring just 14.8 × 10 cm, "Leaving Home" distills Do Ho Suh's lifelong preoccupation with displacement, memory, and the psychological weight of domestic space into a work of striking quiet intensity. The small scale is itself a statement, collapsing architecture and emotion into something held, portable, and profoundly personal. Suh brings to paper the same conceptual rigour that defines his large-scale fabric installations, here allowing the translucency of watercolour to evoke the fragile, permeable nature of home as both physical structure and felt experience. Suh's practice has long interrogated what it means to carry a place within oneself across cultural and geographical borders, drawing on his own experience of moving between Seoul and New York. In "Leaving Home," that tension between rootedness and transit feels especially concentrated. The pencil's precision and the wash of watercolour suggest simultaneously something recorded and something dissolving, the act of departure held in suspension. Works on paper by Suh occupy a distinctive position within his output, offering a more immediate, hand-held intimacy than his monumental installations while remaining fully engaged with the same philosophical terrain. Signed by the artist and offered through Victoria Miro, this 2024 work arrives at a moment of continued international recognition for Suh. Its modest dimensions make it exceptionally suitable for private collection, inviting close, repeated looking. For collectors drawn to art that thinks seriously about memory, migration, and belonging, "Leaving Home" is a quietly authoritative object, one that rewards sustained attention far beyond what its scale might initially suggest.

Medium
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Dimensions
overall: 14.8 x 10 cm
Year
2024
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Victoria Miro

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