FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 4, 2010

Upcoming Exhibition: Do Ho Suh A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project September 14 – December 23, 2010 Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 7pm

Storefront for Art and Architecture is extremely pleased to announce the inauguration of its 2010-11 exhibition season with a new project by internationally acclaimed artist Do Ho Suh. The Bridge Project is Do Ho Suh’s most recent chapter in his ongoing work, A Perfect Home.

Over the past two years Do Ho Suh and his team of researchers, architects, and designers have generated four fantastical bridge designs that propose ways to connect and New York City. This conceptual project, which roots back to Do Ho Suh’s first drawings of this inhabitable bridge in 1999, proposes to build a bridge that joins two homes into one, connecting the spatial, temporal, psychological, and cultural distance between Seoul and New York. Do Ho Suh constructs the bridges within a new space of projected desires where neither economic nor structural optimization are the defining elements of design. His studio’s rigorous and speculative research method has led to the uncovering of a multitude of challenges. Each of the four bridges uses different technologies, structures, and forms to contend with the issues of climate, biodiversity, and human activity. Each design factors in specific environmental and oceanographic data: ocean current, tide, wind, wave, salinity, temperature, sea level, precipitation, snowfall, foliage, cloud fraction, hot spot, natural disasters, the migratory routes of aviary and marine life, etc. The plans also consider political conditions, factoring in missile testing, as well as the migratory patterns of people via air route, ocean liner route, and cruise routes.

Events - 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 4, 2010 Do Ho Suh is well known for his post-minimalist sculptural works that tackle questions about notions of home, place, site, and memory. His experience of transcultural displacement motivates his ongoing inquiry into the ways we conceive of and build our concept of home. The Bridge Project, however, does not resemble the more polished works that are shown in museums throughout the world. Rather, the exhibition presents the hypothetical research as an experimental lab within the gallery space and will present the studio's research and designs. The Bridge Project operates like an open workshop. During the first six weeks of the exhibition the design team will continue to generate solutions for this bridge that spans from Seoul to New York. Documentation of the work made during this period will be included in the exhibition catalogue.

The Book The exhibition catalogue, to be published in December 2010, promises a range of deep probing, critical essays about Do Ho Suh’s work. Contributions by: Felicity D. Scott, co-founder of the journal Grey Room, and Director of the Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; Rania Ghosn, architect, geographer, Doctor of Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010), and editor of New Geographies 02 : Landscapes of Energy; Jyeong-Yeon Kim, director of Art+Lounge Dibang (opened June, 2010), and co-founder of Cottonseed, a non-profit space located in the industrial zone Mullae-dong, Seoul, that is populated by artists and is zoned for demolition and gentrification. This volume is edited by the project’s curator, Yasmeen M. Siddiqui in collaboration with Storefront Director Eva Franch.

About the artist Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul, in 1962. He received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in from . He has since had solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, and the Artsonje Center in Korea. In 2001, he represented Korea at the 49th International and has also participated in exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada among many others. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity. The artist's work is represented in a number of major museum collections including the , New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea, , Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas. Do Ho Suh lives and works in New York and London.

About Storefront for Art and Architecture Since 1982, Storefront has presented the work of more than a thousand architects and artists who challenge conventional perceptions of space – from aesthetic experiments to explorations of the conceptual, social and political forces that shape the built environment. Storefront creates an open forum to help architects and artists realize work and present it to a diverse audience in a program that includes an exhibition, film, publication, and conversation series. In 1993, Storefront commissioned a collaborative building project by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl. The project replaced the existing facade with a series of twelve panels that pivot vertically or horizontally to open the entire length of the gallery directly onto the street. The project blurs the boundary between interior and exterior and, by placing the panels in different configurations, creates a multitude of different possible facades. Now regarded as a contemporary architectural landmark, Storefront’s facade is visited by artists, architects and students from around the world.

Sponsors Major lead support for "Do Ho Suh: A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project" is provided by Yun Jie Chung. The exhibition is also made possible by generous funding from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

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