
Staircase/s
2024
Do Ho Suh's "Staircase/s" (2024) renders a seemingly simple architectural subject into a meditation on memory, displacement, and the uncanny familiarity of domestic space. Executed in coloured pencil on paper at an intimate 14.8 × 10 cm, the work belongs to Suh's sustained investigation of the staircase as a threshold, a liminal structure suspended between floors, between past and present, between the home one inhabits and the home one carries internally. The delicate, layered quality of coloured pencil lends the image a translucency that recalls Suh's larger textile installations, where architecture becomes something permeable and almost ghostly rather than fixed or permanent. The modest scale of this work is central to its power. Collectors will recognise in it the compressed intensity that characterises Suh's works on paper, where an entire architecture of feeling is concentrated into a format one can hold in one's hands. The staircase, so often overlooked as mere connective tissue within a building, becomes in Suh's hands a charged and psychological form, a structure associated with transition, aspiration, and the passage of time. The plural quality suggested by the title, "Staircase/s," opens the image outward, implying not a single documented place but an accumulation of remembered spaces layered one upon another. Signed by the artist, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a small-scale work by one of the most critically significant artists working today. Suh's practice has been celebrated internationally for its ability to transform architectural experience into something deeply personal and universally resonant, and this intimate drawing distils that ambition into an object of quiet, lasting presence.
- Medium
- Coloured pencil on paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Victoria Miro
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