Most artists who work with architecture make it heavier. Do Ho Suh makes it weightless. He rebuilds the homes he has lived in — Seoul, then a string of cities since — out of sheer, coloured fabric you can see straight through.
Every door handle, every light switch, every radiator is sewn at full scale. The overlooked hardware of a life becomes a map.
To walk through Hub is to pass through a memory with daylight coming through its walls. The work measures a distance — between where you were from and where you ended up — without ever naming it. It belongs to the same family as Lee Ufan's empty floor: the meaning lives in the space you move through.
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