‘Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home’

February 21, 2014  |   Feature
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Korean artist Do-Ho Suh SEWS unbelievable life-sized homes out of transparent fabric.

This work is comprised of a life-sized (12 meters in height, 15 meters in width) replica of the three-story town house at Providence, Rhode Island, which was the artist's first residence where he lived as a student in the United States in 1991.
This work is comprised of a life-sized (12 meters in height, 15 meters in width) replica of the three-story town house at Providence, Rhode Island, which was the artist’s first residence where he lived as a student in the United States in 1991.

The work of art called “Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home” is a life-sized home, which was sewn out of beautiful transparent blue fabric, allowing viewers to see through its walls and spot a second (completely different) structure within it.

The title, the work elucidates and conjures the ever-expanding concept of space: traditional Korean house within Western-style house…
The title, the work elucidates and conjures the ever-expanding concept of space: traditional Korean house within Western-style house…

Interested in more information about the artist? DO-HO SUH