Exhibition view: Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Halmang, Jan. 12 - Feb 17, 2024. Photo: David Stjernholm
CALLING, 2011- ongoing)
In 2011 Kaisen began observing and documenting shamanic rituals on Jeju Island. 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 has inherited the shrine and is one of the very few hereditary shamans left to recall and transmit the distinct cosmology of Jeju Island. Youngme asked Kaisen to document the village’s diminishing shamanic rituals.
