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Do Ho Suh – Toilet, 2013, polyester fabric, 34 x 150.1 x 76.5 cm (13.4 x 59.1 x 30.1 inches), from Specimen Series: 348 west 22nd street, apt. New York, NY 10011, USA

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• Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s Specimen series draws a lot from

• his personal experiences as an immigrant from his native country.

• Do arrived in America in 1991

• to study art at the Rhode Island School of Design.

• His experiences at the school led him to measure spaces

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• As he progressed in his career,

• Do developed the idea to take the measurements he had taken from various spaces

• where he used the measurements to replicate

• a series of specimens such as chairs

• fridges, and ovens that he previously owned.

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• A toilet sculpture shaped from plastic and wire.

• investigation of the themes adjoining cultural displacement

• Stitched to perfection and carefully re-created.

• A pstatement about the magic of ordinary things.

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