The artist, Hur Mun Hee

Hur Mun-hee, who grew up in Jeju, has claimed this island her home and place of living, her major artistic fuel. Her paintings are a narrative like a scene of a fairy tale and, at the same time, ambiguous like a riddle. Although they form specific background and shapes, their descriptions of every situation, in fact, are dotted with ambiguity that is quite close to anonymity. The themes she has dealt with are time, memory, a secret, a house, and an island, they are mainly an individual's private experience and uncertain emotions aroused by these topics. This, as the surrealists did, focuses on the double consciousness of an imperfect subject through reality and subconscious, or through overlaid images of the past and the present, of life and death.