Korean shamans are loud and colourful when calling their gods. Lavish displays, dancing, ripping and burning of fabrics and clothes take place within the ceremony, gut.

Often nestling in the mountains natural grooves, sheltered and hidden, the shaman, is made visible by the sound of chants and ritual chimes. Transformations and cleansing through chanting, smoke and the colourful revelations of the divination flags occur. Their secretive and expensive pathways to other powers and knowledge are both revered and feared.

The series includes images from a shaman temple on the eastern coast facing the Sea of Japan, jostling between cliffs, sand and military defence posts. The text on the wooden plank requests patience as someone meditates for one hundred days, which was also the duration of my first visit to South Korea.

Supported by Mondriaan Fonds and MMCA Seoul / Changdong