press release

Gallery Planet is pleased to present Blooming Made, a solo exhibition by artist Boree Hur. Featuring approximately 20 new works across painting, drawing, and sculpture, the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the entanglement of survival and care, labor and existence, as seen through the metaphorical lens of plant life.

Renowned for her distinctive visual language, Hur constructs abstract, nature-inspired compositions that reflect the emotional weight of everyday life. Her Little Flower and Tree Abstract series layer delicate yet combative brushstrokes across canvases, capturing both the serenity and struggle embedded in organic forms. Inspired by her relocation to Jeju Island in 2021, the artist interprets the dense, competitive vitality of forest plants as a mirror of human desires, grief, and persistence.

In her sculptural works, including White Forest and Blooming, Hur reassembles intimate materials such as blankets, discarded clothing, and Ganghwa sochang, a traditional Korean fabric, into tactile installations that resonate with memory and embodiment. Through boiling, soaking, stitching, and reshaping, she transforms these everyday textiles into living forms that speak to the human body’s labor, vulnerability, and capacity to endure.

Blooming Made represents a culmination of Hur’s ongoing exploration into the intersection of life and death, abstraction and intimacy. Her rhythmic and repetitive brushwork becomes a type of performance, leading to layered canvases that radiate energy while leaving room for stillness and reflection. The tension between distance and proximity plays a central role, and what appears serene from afar reveals complexity and raw intensity when viewed up close.

Art critic Su-mi Kang has noted, Hur’s work does not seek to transcend life, it descends into it. Whether in monumental canvases layered with fierce, wheat-like strokes or in tiny fragments celebrating the ordinary and distinctly personal, her paintings are not about nature as object, but about lived experience as form. Her art moves vertically, not laterally, rooted in the body and daily labor, and rising through gesture into a truly contemplative, sensory affair. In this way, Hur’s practice affirms that even art’s noblest of expressions can emerge from the smallest, most human of moments.

At a glance

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