95 Horatio Street

In New York, a new Do Ho Suh’s site-specific work visually reconnects the building facade of 95 Horatio Street with the elevated railway that once occupied the neighborhood.

A new work by Do Ho Suh has been inaugurated in New York, as part of the ongoing series of public art installations located across the street from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line. The artist’s site-specific work visually reconnects the building facade of 95 Horatio Street with the elevated railway that once occupied the neighborhood.

Img.1 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Although today the High Line ends at Gansevoort Street, here Suh imagines what the vista might have looked like in the days when train tracks continued to run through buildings down into SoHo. The digitally rendered image, titled 95 Horatio Street, was unveiled on June 26, on the southwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets.

Img.2 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Suh is interested in the emotional and psychological significance of architectural space: its relation to personal memory and the collapse of time are themes he explores across media. His fabric recreations of former homes, meticulous rubbings of the interior of his New York apartment, and drawings of mobile and anthropomorphic architectural structures are evocative meditations on the definition of home, and how this definition is affected by displacement and context.

Img.3 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Img.4 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Img.5 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Img.6 Do Ho Suh, 95 Horatio Street, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

95 Horatio Street is the sixth work to be presented in this series of public art installations, organized by the Whitney in partnership with TF Cornerstone and High Line Art. The series has featured works by Alex Katz (2014), Michele Abeles (2015), Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2015–2016), Torbjørn Rødland (2016–2017), and Puppies Puppies (2017).

26 June 2017 – ongoing
Do Ho Suh: 95 Horatio Street
Southwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets

95 Horatio Street

In New York, a new Do Ho Suh’s site-specific work visually reconnects the building facade of 95 Horatio Street with the elevated railway that once occupied the neighborhood.

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