Hanna Hur was born in 1985 in Toronto. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Hanna Hur’s work takes the form of paintings and drawings, as well as sculptural pieces, generally created using hand-cut and hand-knotted copper chainmail. At once meticulous and evanescent, her compositions are part of a spiritual practice, whether they are crystallizing and inviting a state of meditation or participating in a specific form of ritual. A grid motif or the repetition of geometric shapes often forms the starting point of the work. As with Agnes Martin, the grid suggests a vibration rather than the rigidity of a model; it opens out onto infinity rather than confining us. It is from this patiently constructed, subtly colored background that the image literally emerges. The forms may be recognizable (figures, flowers, windows, etc.) or abstract, but they all share this apparitional status. In the fragile, flickering mode of a firefly, in the sovereign, bewitching manner of a hallucination, or within the uncertainty of limbo, the work invites us to hold our gaze.
Her work is represented by Kristina Kite Gallery (Los Angeles)
