Korean artist Do-Ho Suh’s “Some/One, 2001”
The seven foot sculpture resembles a Korean suit of polished armor.
Up close,
it reveals an assemblage of thousands of overlapping artificial dog tags that represent individual soldiers.
In its deceptive simplicity, the soldiers become subsumed into the sum total of the piece.
Suh is engaging the viewer in a conversation about the identity of the individual versus the collective.
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