Billy De Luca

For many, three decades is a serious chunk of time. It implies places, too many to quantify. It means events too long gone to remember. And, it tells around 10950 days, which will never be repeated. For artist Do Ho Suh, it implies a curatorial challenge, a sifting of work. Sydney’s  Museum of Contemporary Art is now taking on the challenge of presenting Suh’s first major solo exhibition, in the Southern Hemisphere, no less, and this summer the world will see how they’ve done it.  Of course, any retrospective could be said to do the same thing, but with Suh, whose work is so intricately connected with place and time, this is more interesting than usual. One of the most prominent contemporary South Korean artists in the world, Do Ho Suh (born 1962), currently lives and works in London. His best-known works feature fabric sculptures (sometimes silk, sometimes polyester) depicting scale models of his former homes. He had lived a somewhat nomadic life until settling in London and starting a family, living in New York, Rhode Island, Berlin and Seoul. His ‘homes’ were later pictured in fabric, at times to scale, and at times with appliances such as ovens, radiators and telephones. Although, he didn’t narrow himself down to textile structures, with his practice remaining as peripatetic as his habitats. It spans into installation, film, drawing, charcoal rubbings and sculpture.  Suh seduces the audience with a perishable dream of another world His large-scale sculptures are full of i