CALLING, 2011- ongoing
Kaisen has been documenting shamanic rituals on Jeju Island since 2011. Several of the exhibited photographs portray simbang, the Jeju term for shaman, particularly late simbang Koh Sunahn who served as the acting shaman in the hometown of Kaisen’s grandparents. Since Koh passed away in 2019, her daughter Youngme inherited the village shrine and is one of the few hereditary shamans left to recall and transmit the distinct cosmology of Jeju Island. Youngme asked Kaisen to document the village’s vanishing shamanic rituals.
