Do Ho Suh
The Contemporary Austin | Jones Center
So many weighty themes are piled onto Do Ho Suh’s fabric sculptures, it seems remarkable that his diaphanous structures don’t collapse under their heavy load. History and biography, longing and belonging, migration and globalizationthese are only a handful of the ponderous concatenations apparently called to mind by the artist’s works. Such associations are perhaps not surprising, given that Suh’s work addresses architecture, a perennially symbolic subject, and specifically the homesurely the most intensely symbolic of architectural spaces. Indeed, in his more literal moments, Suh