“One: Do Ho Suh”

Home has been a favorite theme in the work of Do Ho Suh, who leads a peripatetic life not uncommon for global art stars travelling the world to this museum or that biennial. This exhibition consists of a single work, The Perfect Home II (2003), a recreation of the South Korean artist’s former New York City apartment made out of sheets of translucent nylon stitched onto wire armatures. Everything is exactly replicated in ghostly scrim: Rooms, doorways and halls, as well as a kitchen complete with cabinets and appliances, and a bathroom with all the fixtures. The material is colored a light cyan, recalling a faded blueprint in a dream. The piece is an early iteration of similar installations that have become the signature for an itinerant artist, looking, as he puts it, “to carry my house with me.”