Songs for Seonangshin revisits family history and forced migration, tracing the silence left by Japan’s occupation of Korea and the peninsula’s division as a Cold War proxy. Crafted from modest, elemental materials, the series summons the presence of nature at the heart of Korean shamanistic traditions dating back to the twelfth century—beliefs that returned as enduring gestures of cultural and spiritual resistance to colonial domination.

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