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Sojung Jun in conversation with Valentine Umanksy

Sojung Jun in coversation (video still) 2025. Credit: Nommadics (Mijo)

Artist Sojung Jun discusses her new commission I Do Nine-Tailed Fox (26 September 2025 – 31 January 2026), with curator Valentine Umansky.

This film and sculpture-based installation is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK institution. The work invokes the East Asian mythic figure of the Nine-Tailed Fox (gumiho) to explore nomadic identities of transformation and metamorphosis, while drawing on Octavia Butler’s Earthseed to consider the seed – carried by wind, animals, or water – as a sign of survival and return amid planetary breakdown.

Following the narratives of Koreans forcibly relocated to Central Asia in the Soviet era, the work centres on the Koryo-saram community in Kazakhstan, specifically the Koryo Theatre in Almaty. Stories of multi-species migration, displacement and transnational intersectionality are bound with the idea of movement - shifting between geographies and temporalities, tradition and modernity; transcending the boundaries of time and space. With the theatre’s women artists, tracking its sonic legacies, the film proceeds as a no-cut flow of AI-generated transitions, appropriating the gumiho as an apparatus of metamorphosis, branching, and polyvocality, braiding archaeology with speculative imagination.

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