Featuring bright colours, yet poetically reserved in their tone, Hur Kyung-Ae’s unmistakable artworks stretch the usual boundaries between painting and sculpture. Her works show a new and unconventional way of using Obangsaek, the five cardinal colours of the traditional Korean patterns. Each of her works resonates with the joy of life. Her paintings feature an array of colours in a sensual and expressive complexity, yet they are made to align to a systematic order. Construction and deconstruction are the characteristic phases in the creative process: scraping off and cutting into the carefully layered coats of paint. Each of her artworks reveal wonderment at the world, and a sense of joy arising in its wake.