Well I’ve learned to accept that artwork
for me in the school holidays goes out the window (as I don't think helping make a pom pom easter chick counts as art). Attempting to do any is futile and acceptance
of this fact is easier than dealing with my subsequent frustrations.
Anyway, youngest sproggie was keen to go to the museum which was great I thought, it’s free for one thing, and also it meant I could at least do something art related, go and look at the Do
Ho Suh exhibit. I came across his work a
while back when I had also discovered Rachel Whiteread and was thinking a lot
about space. It was also relevant when I was thinking of
sculpture and playing with mesh like fabrics and stitching to portray the figure.
At the museum we weren’t
in time for the talk but then, one of us may have been a bit too fidgety for
that anyway.
Do Ho Suh’s exhibit at Bristol Museum was New
York City Apartment Corridor/ Ground Floor Plus Staircase. This was based on his home in New york, a
mesh fabric replication of the space and internal architecture.
Included were details such as light switches and door knobs all
intricately shaped and sewn into the fabric. Like a
gazebo or tent the installation folds neatly up and can then be packed into
suitcases. It is very much a ghostly
echo of a more physical space.
From what I have read Do Ho Suh’s work revolves
around ideas of relationships to space, as an individual and a collective. Space in terms of our home that we occupy,
even our clothes. He also deals with
memory, displacement and identity. A
very interesting artist that I had only associated with these mesh architectural
type of works but having looked, came across some other amazing things he has
done.
I really love these:
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