Before leaving the New York apartment where he lived and worked for eighteen years, Do Ho Suh covers its surfaces with paper. Rubbing them with coloured pencil, he records their details and traces. Rubbing / Loving turns a home into a portable memory: the repeated act of drawing becomes a way of holding on to a place he can no longer inhabit.
Do Ho Suh – Rubbing / Loving: The Imprint of a Home
Before leaving the New York apartment where he lived and worked for eighteen years, Do Ho Suh covers its surfaces with paper. Rubbing them with coloured pencil, he records their details and traces. Rubbing / Loving turns a home into a portable memory: the repeated act of drawing becomes a way of holding on to…
