Do Ho Suh has a rather unique way of familiarising himself with spaces. "When I found myself measuring my student studio in the US, shortly after leaving Korea … a lot of my thinking coalesced," recalls the artist to Vogue. "It was a deeply instinctive urge, a way of acquainting myself with a new environment."
Of course, there's nothing peculiar about measuring nooks in a new apartment. But the motivation behind Suh's cartography is slightly different. Many of the South Korean-born, London-based artist's most renowned large-scale artworks, fashioned from bright textiles or resin, are replicas of places he's come to know intimately, having lived or worked inside them.
