Do Ho Suh, makes beautiful life size soft fabric installations of places he has a cultural personal history and memory with. I walked through this installation at LACMA in January this year. What i found resonating was the stark emptiness of his apartment yet it had so much delicate detail, right down to the embroiled of power controls. As i left the outside world of the gallery and imagined myself being in his apartment i felt a sense of emptiness and like being put back in time as this apartment reminded me of a building in the 1950’s or may be early. Looking at this and another image see #2 the beauty starts to disappear and i look at the surrounding gallery space which brings me back to my own art making containment.
