Hanna Hur
A mirror, my shadow, the view
- Exposition
Hanna Hur lives and works in Toronto. She completed a Bachelor's degree at Concordia University in 2008. Hanna Hur's work has been presented at several group exhibitions in Toronto including Mercer Union (2011), Art Metropole and XPACE (2012). In 2011, with support from the Ontario Arts Council, Hanna Hur traveled to Berlin where she collaborated with artist Candice Breitz. During this residency in Germany, she presented a solo exhibition at the Okazi Gallery (2011). Last winter, she organized the collective exhibition, Again, With Feeling! which brought together the work of seven young artists living in Toronto. Hanna Hur is currently preparing two exhibitions for O'Born Contemporary and YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto) respectively. Her exhibition A Mirror, My Shadow, The View presented at Galerie B-312 is her first solo exhibition in Canada.
—OPENING THURSDAY OCTOBRE 11, 2012 AT 5 PM
Galerie B-312 is pleased to present A Mirror, My Shadow, The View by Toronto multidisciplinary artist Hanna Hur. This exhibition mainly brings together drawings from the Views on Views project, initiated during a stay in Berlin.—In her work, Hanna Hur combines a documentary research from various horizons (philosophy and psychology, for instance) to a more intuitive approach in the studio. The first sketches created as part of the Views on Views project led the artist to focus on the book The Phenomenology of the Perception by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose ideas nourished her subsequent creations.—Hanna Hur’s various drawing formats, reminiscent of postcards, photographs or posters, share the landscape. From this familiar representation, the artist plays with the subjectivity of the viewer and the expectations that can be associated with such a subject; the deployment of large spaces or the affirmation of natural beauty. The artist chooses instead to introduce to the drawing a visual complexity that blurs its interpretation.—By deconstructing the classical representation of the landscape, the drawings of Hanna Hur highlight the filters and the shortcuts that occur when one perceives a familiar subject.
—MATHIEU MENARD
