Do Ho Suh’s | Miniature House

This weekend I was reading Paper City while having a salad at Cafe Express and ran across a two page spread of Contemporary superstar Do Ho Suh’s remarkable miniature house installation which is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is called Fallen Star 1/5, part of the traveling exhibition  “Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea.” I found it fascinating.. and wish I could show you the images that Paper City had that were so detailed.

Just to paraphrase part of the article so you can get an idea of what you are seeing in these photographs “a kitchen stocked with holiday trimmings, complete with a dressed turkey, alongside prosaic condiments such as a jar of olives and a Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle; cabinets loaded with an arsenal of cleaning supplies including a box of Tide; a breakfast nook where an open laptop awaited its owner, color pencils strewn across a desk, while a completed drawing rested nearby; a library bearing leather-bound volumes, plus a paperback guide to beginning French that had been taken off the shelf; a pair of golden mules standing guard against a white-painted bedstead; in another bedroom, riotous red wallpaper serving as a backdrop for a four-poster bed;  and a suite of blue Delft plates adorning a wainscoated wall near a Queen Anne dining chair – all of this based on actual household furnishings, measured and then recreated in exacting 1-to-5 scale.”

You can see and read more about Do Ho Suh and his work here  Fallen Star 1/5 or by checking out Paper City.

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