I wouldn’t know any other way

2020
Hand-shredded silk flowers, vinyl print, and mirror
As a part of the exhibition “Death Becomes Her,” BRIC | Brooklyn, New York  
Photography by David Andrako

For this immersive installation, Hur meticulously hand shreds 4,500 silk flower petals to a powder-like consistency. Hur blurs a large vinyl print of a personal site of loss with yellow hand-shredded silk flowers. The work raises questions of loss and remembrance; whose memories become history and whose are left to disintegrate? What does it take to remember? The mirrored field creates an intimate and illusional space for the artist to be present with these gestures of melancholy. In unforgiving repetition, this is an act of reconciliation between life and mourning.

Hur performed three days in February 2020 before the city’s shutdown by Covid-19. The exhibition remained at BRIC gallery through the end of 2020.

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“Hur focuses on the personal relationships our bodies have with death. Her vision was to explore the natural transitions of life and its vulnerability, as well as the process of unraveling emotional weight in life through the meditative yet unforgiving labor of making (as in, creating). ”

- Julie Kramer, The Cut