Spring Hiatus
2011
Hand-shredded silk flower
Commissioned by Flux Projects | Atlanta, Georgia
Photography by Christina Price Washington
This temporary public project Spring Hiatus is the largest floor installation, 16 feet by 36 feet, in Hur’s body of work. For three months 40 hours a week, the artist worked with her parents to hand-shred the silk flowers in preparation. The commissioned piece was installed inside of Lenox Mall. Hur worked with her family, friends, volunteers, and members of her immigrant community to create this monumental piece.
Hur used this unique opportunity to share her labor-intensive making process with the general public through a hundred hours of installing, conversing, and conducting informal artist talks over 4 weeks. Brightly colored lines carefully conceal the fragility of the piece. This very tension is the core of Hur’s floor installation work that evokes personal and collective loss and memory. Hur asks the audience to participate in this labor of unraveling our complex stories with grace and time.