Project Space: Hesoo Kwon
Leymusoom Universe
In Project Space, multimedia artist Heesoo Kwon presents a two-part program of ten video works from her expansive Leymusoom Universe—an autobiographical feminist religion she founded in 2017.
Part 1 (September 18-28) explores the universe’s architectures and mythologies, where avatars of Kwon’s female ancestors and the deity Leymusoom appear in ritualized, digital spaces drawn from family archives and Korean shamanistic traditions. Part 2 (October 2-12) turns toward intergenerational ties, reflecting on how intimacy, tradition, and care endure across migration and time.
Developed through ritual, trance, and collaboration, Kwon’s practice continually expands the Leymusoom Universe as a site for feminist fabulation and communal storytelling. Her Headlands residency informs this ongoing process, as she builds new works that extend family photographs with AI tools and reimagine archives as spaces of care and resilience.
Kwon engages in ritualistic, auto-ethnographic, and archival practices that merge personal memory, Korean mythology, and femme genealogies. She received her MFA from UC Berkeley and is Assistant Professor of Animation at California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown internationally, with recent recognition including the 2025 Eureka Fellowship and the 2025 NEW Program Grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
Project Space is on the third floor of Building 944 and is currently accessible only by stairs.
