RITUAL MEDIA ARTIST

SOOJIN
PRAY

Soojin Pray is a ritual media artist exploring invisible relations between body, place, ancestral memory, and digital technology.

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.

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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

Circle Part.1

CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

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