Art Hur
USA
Art Hur is a queer, multilingual, multidisciplinary artist who creates new visual languages using abstract and minimal phenomena. His paintings’ connection to Hong Kong, through the sustainable medium of cardboard, is less abstract. Cardboard in Hong Kong is known as 紙皮 jí pèih, literally “paper skin.” Hur harvests freshly discarded paper skins to paint with, cardboard of all shapes and sizes, shed by the metropolis as it digests a flow of endless deliveries to stay alive. In this way, Hur’s work repurposes overlooked objects into meaningful visual language. Hur’s poems and prose follow a similar trajectory: overlooked moments are documented, amassed and, through faint narrative lines, distilled with meaning.
