Repose

2010
Hand-shredded silk flower petals, acrylic-glass shelves
Get This! Gallery | Atlanta, Georgia

An extension of Hur’s thesis exhibition A Requiem In The Garden, Repose presents the artist’s floor installation of hand-shredded silk flowers as Hur’s first gallery solo exhibition. Collected silk flowers are carefully disassembled, hand-shredded by the artist and a community of people around her. The pattern produced by this labor beckons to memories of the past and inherent ephemeral comfort.

Hur repeats the same stripes on acrylic sheets suspended along two walls of the gallery, elevating the material and visuality that dominates the gallery floor. A small window is cut out on the top left corner of the gallery wall, allowing the viewer an aerial view of the installation. This window represents the ‘lens of a child’, the nearsighted and wondrous way that youth looks at life. As Hur’s work evolves, this idea affirms the artist’s desire to rewrite a perfect story always hoped for.

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“Hur refers to her obsessive cutting of the flowers as an attempted cremation. The resulting colorful ‘ashes’ possess a peculiar beauty and become material for the re-creation of her memories in a personal, yet public, space.”

-Diana McClintock, Sculpture Magazine