Loving Deeply In Suppleness

2019
Silk flowers
7 days performance, 12 participants
As a part of the exhibition “Supple Means of Connection,” High Museum of Art | Atlanta, Georgia 
Photography by Crystal Jin Kim

In collaboration with Lauri Stalling, choreographer in residence at the High Museum of Art and her company glo, Hur performs Loving Deeply in Suppleness. The artist returns to her home state with visceral memories of growing up a part of the Asian diaspora in the American South. Over seven days, Hur sits down with those closest to her: her nephew and niece, mother, friends and their daughters, teacher, and former pastor. In revisiting the community that nurtured and protected her, the artist puts on display her emotional ties to family, labor, intimacy, and invisibility in public.

The sculpture in the center of this performance is created by Tian Justman, a fashion designer and stylist, who passed away in 2016. The hanging garments and headpieces were created during Lauri Stallings and glo’s interdisciplinary performance Hippodrome in which Hur participated as an installation artist for the stage. Hur would like to honor Tian Justman’s life and legacy and is in gratitude for Justman’s work to be included in this performance piece along with Lauri Stallings’ choreography and sculptures.

“Your bodies have endured waiting,
Suffering and birthing,
And your insistence on resilience and beauty
Humble me.
Your daughters and sons see further future then we do,
And we sing and love and take comfort in that alone.”

-An excerpt from “Loving Deeply In Suppleness” (2019)