Art review Domestic replicas bring home the haunting power of memory

Home is where the art is for Do Ho Suh. The Korean conceptualist has spent his career ruminating on and exploring the places we live in, creating ghostly, beautiful facsimiles of the houses and apartments he has called home.

- Eddy Frankel

And now those fragile, wispy, delicate buildings from throughout his life have been transported and rebuilt in Tate Modern. A traditional Korean hanok house looms over you as you enter. It is not made of bricks and mortar or wood and screws, but paper, carefully wrapped around the artist's childhood home and rubbed with graphite, exposing the texture beneath. The paper is yellowed and mildewed from months of being left exposed to the elements, but it has survived to exist as a sort of memorial: to childhood, architecture, migration, the past.

It is the perfect expression of all of Do Ho Suh's best ideas: the haunting power of memory, the loss of your past self and the way the spaces we live in act as symbols for all of it, long after we have moved out or migrated away.