Do Ho Suh’s Gate is like the travel size version of a gate that stands outside his childhood home in Korea.

Do Ho Suh’s art is characterized by an extraordinarily bad case of homesickness and centers around the places in his life that he misses the most. This particular bout of homesickness is about his childhood home in Korea, that was designed by the artist’s father, who was also an artist. Legend has it that in the 1950s and 60s “as Korea was modernizing in great haste, many of its old buildings were thoughtlessly torn down” so Do Ho Suh’s father built their family home form the “discarded wood from a demolished palace building.” Gate is a one to one replica of a gate that stands outside of his parents’ home.

This isn’t just your average arch though. This arch is extra low so you have to duck to get under it. “Why?” you may ask. Well because as any good architect knows, it’s funny when people run into things and it’s their job to create such incidents for the morale of those inhabiting his design. JK. A low arch “promotes a self-awareness that begins in the viewer's body, and instills humility,” which is cool too I guess.

Upon looking at Gate, you may think that you’re looking at a hologram. You may think that you can just walk right through it. We assure you that you cannot and trying to do so will end very badly for you as the piece is made out of nylon and stainless steel tubing. But then again this would bring up the whole people-running-into-things-is-funny bit, which might make the museum security guard laugh instead of throw you out. But they will probably still just throw you out.