Do Ho Suh

This past wednesday, the Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh was named as WSJ Magazine's 2013 Innovator of the Year in Art. Do Ho Suh's work often explores issues pertaining to the idea of home and memories of personal space, working across multiple scales, from the domestic—such as "drawings" created by lining the interior of rooms with paper and rubbing with a colored pencil to document the surfaces—through to the monumental—such as his installation Fallen Star; a house perched in a seemingly precarious manner on the roof of the University of California's engineering school in San Diego.

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Refrigerator" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

These ideas are both addressed in his upcoming solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin's Hong Kong gallery, where he'll be exhibiting his recent Specimen Series, with true-to-life scale replications of items such as a radiator and refrigerator—made from a semi-transparent polyester fabric—sculpted as his way of trying to remember the New York apartment he left behind when he moved to London in 2010.

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Toilet" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Stove" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Radiator" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Medicine Cabinet" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

"Specimen Series: 348 West 22nd Street, APT. New York, NY 10011, USA - Bathtub" 2013. © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo by Taegsu Jeon

Do Ho Suh is on from Nov. 14th until Jan. 25, 2014, at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong,

Concurrently, the artist will also be showing his installation Home within Home within Home within Home within Home at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in his native Seoul.