Thursday, September 24, 2009

Art and Globalism/Spirituality - Do-Ho Suh

Do-Ho Suh




Floor, 1997-2000

Floor is an installation where the audience is invited to walk across a thick glass floor where more than 180,000 small PVC plastic figures strain and reach to support a thick layer of glass. The figures, just over 2 inches high and cast from six-different molds, were differentiated by reductive characteristics of gender and race, their legs bowed with the effort of supporting the glass plates raised above their heads. ‘Floor’ refers to globalism by commenting on class and population.

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