High School Uni-Face: Girl

Maker(s)
Artist: Do-Ho Suh (Korea, born 1962; active United States)
Historical period(s)
1997
Medium
Chromogenic print on paper
Dimensions
H x W (overall): 175.3 x 127 cm (69 x 50 in)
Geography
South Korea, Seoul
Credit Line
Purchase--funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Accession Number
S2006.34.2
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Photograph
Type

Photograph

Keywords
Korea, portrait, woman
Provenance
Provenance research underway.
Label

In this work, artist Do-ho Suh explicitly addresses the concept of identity from a transnational and a Korean perspective by creating a visual oscillation between the individual and the larger social collective, represented by his high-school class. Suh is interested in exploring the tension "between the singular and the plural. In the Korean language there is no such distinction."

Published References
  • David Hogge, Carol Huh. Painting with Light: Photography at the Freer / Sackler. Washington, 2017. 64, 67, 52.
  • Korean Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Washington. no. 11.6, p. 193.
Collection Area(s)
Contemporary Art, Korean Art
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