Gyun Hur’s Two-Year Project will Culminate with a Large-Scale Installation at the Goat Farm, March 15-30
Artist Marks the Fourth Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings with Work That Holds Space to Explore Grief and Healing in Asian Communities
ATLANTA (January 27, 2025) – Flux Projects presents Our mothers, our water, our peace, Gyun Hur’s immersive installation of more than 125 handblown, tear-shaped glass vessels, at The Goat Farm, Saturday, March 15 to Sunday, March 30. Hur created Our mothers, our water, our peace in response to the escalation of Asian hate crimes during the pandemic, followed by the 2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings, of which this marks the fourth anniversary. This two-year project continues the artist’s devotion to find poetics in personal and collective grief and healing.
This is Flux Projects’ second project with Hur after the 2011 Spring Hiatus, which explored her familial past and ties to South Korea.
“Since our first project with Gyun, the hallmarks of her practice were clear, like her exquisite craftsmanship and enduring commitment to telling stories in works imbued in resilience and beauty,” said Anne Archer Dennington, executive director of Flux Projects. “She’s had so much artistic growth and success over the years, and it’s an honor to bring her back for an Atlanta audience to experience Our mothers, our water, our peace, as she explores residual grief and trauma and redefines narratives for future generations.”
Last year, Hur began installing glass vessels within public and private spaces amongst Asian American communities. These intimate, small-scale installations have been in the offices of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta, the Asian American Advocacy Fund, the Lawrenceville Arts Center, and the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage along with 12 individual Asian American family homes. Holding local river or creek water, a total of 100 dispersed glass sculptures have served to seed conversations around intergenerational work and healing. This outreach to the Asian American community has been facilitated by artist Nicole Kang Ahn, who has worked as a community liaison on the project.
“I have been moved by the Atlanta Asian communities’ openness to share their stories of resilience and love through this project,” said Hur.
Hur will recollect these vessels to create a communal site of reflection, gathering, and connection at The Goat Farm. In the spirit of remembrance, lamentation, and celebration, Our mothers, our water, our peace will remain on view for two weeks and offer performances, workshops, and artist talks – all free to the public.
Our mothers, our water, our peace is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; an Arnold Form Fellowship, The New School, and Perennial Properties.
With Our mothers, our water, our peace, Flux Projects continues FLOW, a multi-year series designed to explore Atlanta’s relationship with water, how it has shaped our city and the potential it holds for our future. With projects like Atlanta to the Atlantic, Ghost Pools and, Emergence, FLOW engages issues of conservation, equity, and urban design through installations and performances. Projects are/have been installed along creeks and watersheds, over buried waterways, and at other sites reconnecting us with nature and each other.
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About Gyun Hur:
Gyun Hur is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and an educator whose biographical context as a first-generation immigrant largely informs her creative practice and pedagogical approach. Born in South Korea, she moved to Atlanta at the age of 13, and studied painting and sculpture at the University of Georgia and Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts.
In Hur’s practice, she is deeply engaged in generating poetics of beauty and grief in visual and emotional spaces she creates. Through iterations of installations, performances, drawings, and writings, Hur traverses between autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling, asking what holds us together; stories, yearnings, rituals, and spirituality.
Our mothers, our water, our peace is Hur’s second major project with Flux Projects. Her first, Spring Hiatus, was presented in Lenox Square mall in 2011, featured in Flux Film 007. In both works, Gyun invites the audience to participate in the labor of unraveling our layered, perplexing stories with grace and time.
About Flux Projects:
Flux Projects commissions public art that invites audiences in Atlanta to explore the city’s sites and stories as a means to imagining its future possibilities. These projects disrupt the everyday and inspire imagination, wonder, and awe. They support artists to take risks and grow their practices whether they are internationally acclaimed or producing their first public work. They create communal spaces for people of all walks of life. And they bring a location’s past, present and future into conversation in ways that open our eyes to new possibilities. Flux Projects gives art the space to transform
About Goat Farm:
The Goat Farm is a multi-disciplinary Cultural Center in West Midtown Atlanta. One of Atlanta’s largest centers for contemporary and experimental thought, practice, art and performance, its mission is to explore a more responsible approach to development and how property can be used to support art and culture via a self-sustaining built environment. Primarily exploring and supporting inventive and innovative works, the Goat Farm is a laboratory where creative risk is nurtured & celebrated. The Goat Farm executes this mission through an unconventional social enterprise for-profit arts model.
