Soojin Pray holding a black ritual mask

RITUAL ARTIST

SOOJIN
PRAY

A Korean artist exploring how the body remembers and restores itself, through performance, moving image, and participatory ritual rooted in Korean somatic traditions.

We, We Wish — Vol. 1

The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales

〈설령 잊혀지더라도 지켜야 할 것을 지키는 자〉

2024

Single-channel moving image

10 min 45 sec

Colour, stereo sound

3:1 panoramic

A contemporary ritual-media work developed from an artist-led dawn ritual at Seonbawi Rock in Seoul. Through mask, movement, breath, sound, and digital image, the work asks how embodied cultural memory can persist without being reduced to spectacle or a fixed image of tradition.

The masked artist performing at Seonbawi Rock before dawn in the released first work
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2023 (begun) · A Three-Part Ritual-Media Project

We, We Wish

Three completed works tracing embodied cultural memory, ritual, and invisible relations across body, place, and contemporary media.

Dusk performance at Jaguri Park with the audience reclining across the coastal field
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2025–ongoing · Site-responsive ritual performance cycle

Healing Tide

A site-responsive ritual performance cycle that composes temporary fields of collective attention through sound, movement, breath, and place.

An aerial view of a large white circle and Soojin Pray on tidal ground
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2020/2026 · Site-responsive performance film · single-channel moving image · colour

Circle of Life

A personal act of mourning unfolds through repeated bodily actions on tidal ground; the 2020 film was revisited through a complete sound re-edit in 2026.

Still from RED GOKKAL, 2020
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2020 · Single-channel dance film · 10 min 22 sec

RED GOKKAL

An early ritual moving-image work exploring bodily memory, mask, death and renewal, and the relation between body and place.

Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey presented in a media-wall environment
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2024 · Media-wall moving-image work

Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey

A media-wall moving-image work exploring the relation between digital environments and embodied perception.

Meridian Flow Score from Soojin Pray’s artist notebook, 2021
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2020–ongoing · Long-term embodied research

MOUM: The Living Archive

Long-term embodied research into Korean body-cosmology, breath, movement, qi, meridian knowledge, seasonal rhythm, and everyday ritual.

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The body is not only a performer’s instrument, but a living archive of cultural memory, ritual knowledge, and invisible relations.

BODY — PLACE — MEMORY — TECHNOLOGY

The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales

The Green Screen, Tarragona, Spain · selected; screening 13 November 2026

MAGO GAIA (2020)

LOVE–POWER–PEACE: The Future Is Now! · Selected Artist

Circle Part.1

International group exhibition, 19 August–6 September · CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

Healing Tide — Evening Fold

Eunpyeong Culture Foundation, Seoul · 16 iterations, urban forest

Healing Tide

2025 Culture Month Seogwipo, Jaguri Park, Seogwipo, Jeju

Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey

Suji Library VR·AR Experience Hall, Yongin

The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales

Art Korea Lab Media Wall, Seoul

The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales

10 Years After Ground, Gwangju

Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey

Art Korea Lab D-Showroom, Seoul

Digital Forest Meditation Odyssey

Jeonju University X-ValueUp Space, Jeonju

GOYO Meditation Planet

NewImages Festival XR Market / Korea Focus, Paris