Homage To
2010
Hand-shredded silk flower, honey
30 minutes performance
Ox-Bow | Saugatuck, Michigan
During Hur's artist residency at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan, the artist disrupts her floor installation Tilted Blanket. With honey coating parts of her exposed skin, Hur carefully compresses her face and body and imprints her mother's wedding blanket patterns directly onto herself during the performance.
This performance pays an homage to Joseph Beuy’s How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, using honey has a symbol of rebirth and an adhesive for silk flowers that memorialize the dead and the past on a living body. After her performance, Hur’s friend rinses her body with water and the silk flower residue of the performance is washed away.