Karma by Do Ho Suh

Facts

Material

Thread embedded in cotton paper

Size

229 x 354 cm

Description

Do Ho Suh often tackles the question of individuality and identity through repetition. For drawings like Karma from 2015, Suh repeats the same human figure over and over again, creating a multi-layered, almost ornamental pattern. In the process these figures lose their distinct and recognisable shapes and forms – they almost seem to vanish into the horizon. An identity and the individual, Suh seems to say, is both one out of many and many in itself.