
Self Portrait
2023
A diminutive yet quietly commanding work, this 2023 pencil and watercolour on paper by Do Ho Suh distills the artist's lifelong investigation of identity, presence, and belonging into an intimate format measuring just 14.8 × 10 centimetres. The self portrait operates at the intersection of the personal and the philosophical, inviting the viewer to consider how a self can be rendered, contained, and communicated within the most modest of physical boundaries. Suh's characteristic sensitivity to threshold and translation surfaces here not through the architectural installations for which he is widely celebrated, but through the quiet authority of mark-making on paper, where pencil and watercolour negotiate between structure and dissolution. Suh, who was born in Seoul and has lived and worked across South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom, has spent decades exploring the spaces between cultures and the way identity is shaped by movement and memory. That sustained inquiry finds a concentrated expression in this small-format self portrait, where the intimacy of the scale feels deliberate rather than incidental. The work carries the layered vulnerability of an artist turning observation back upon himself, with watercolour lending a quality of translucency that resists any fixed or definitive reading. Signed by the artist and offered through Victoria Miro, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a work that is at once deeply personal and conceptually resonant, reflecting the full depth of one of contemporary art's most thoughtful and internationally significant practices.
- Medium
- Pencil and watercolour on paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Victoria Miro
For Sale — $10000
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