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 The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House

Tate Modern, London, UK,

May 1 – October 19, 2025

Do Ho Suh (b.1962, South Korea) is no stranger to art audiences. The exhibition at Tate Modern London Walk the House feels like an invitation directly into the artist’s mind.

In the exhibition, we find life-size re-creations of domestic spaces—every tiled roof, wooden window panel, and light switch. These creations are life-size but rendered in translucent, candy-coloured polyester. The size of the object is precise but the material and colors are surreal. The polyester surfaces allow each element to remain visible through the next; when you stare at a light switch sewn onto a silk wall, you inevitably see the outlines of other switches, door handles, or hinges floating behind it. Suh’s works are visually cognitively interesting.

These ordinary objects are made repetitively. If each object represents a memory, then Suh suggests that memory is not singular, butlayered, porous, and in constant dialogue with other moments, incidents, and emotional residues. A terracotta lever handle door knob feels more grounded than a blue one. A magenta dork handle knob gives a more joyful vibe than a gray one. The viewer walks not through a house, but through a network of recollections—emotional, overlapping, and deeply human.

A highlight of the exhibition, Home Within Home (1/9 Scale) (2025), presents a 3D scan of Suh’s childhood hanok in South Korea nested inside a 19th-century house in Providence, Rhode Island. The work evokes the paradox of the Penrose stairs: an impossibly continuous structure looping back on itself. Suh’s nested homes operate similarly, collapsing geography, time, and memory into a space that feels both impossible yet intimately familiar.