Robin Hood Gardens
Do Ho Suh's panoramic film is both site-specific and time-specific—a document of Alison and Peter Smithson's modular interiors as they were adapted, decorated, and furnished by residents, as well as a wider meditation about home, memory, and displacement within a physical structure that is about to disappear. [Overview Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery NYC]
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