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Do Ho Suh. Lightswitch, 2018. Cotton threads on polyester fabric, light switch, pins, painted plywood, framed. 45 x 40 x 5.5 cm. Edition of 20, signed and numbered. Full price: £5000 inc VAT. Members' price: £4500 inc VAT. For the Whitechapel Gallery, Do Ho Suh has created a special limited edition entitled Lightswitch, 2018. Suh has a fascination with everyday objects that we touch all the time, such as a light switch. For the edition, Suh has collected used light switches and mounted them on a board. A piece of polyester fabric has then been pinned over each unique object and an extract from Suh's diary embroidered in rainbow-coloured thread over the top, resulting in a series of works, each exquisitely made and subtly different. Parallels can be drawn with Suh's thread drawings and his large-scale sculptural installations which recreate intimate dwelling spaces and domestic objects in coloured fabric. The used light switches retain a history of everyone's touch having been switched on and off everyday for years. This series is an attempt to highlight these memories and to capture a moment in Suh's own life through the embroidery.