Residency Period
Jul–Sep 2025

Mooni Perry is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin and Seoul. Her work explores ‘double-fallen’ identities – those who exist between categories of gender, history and belonging – through moving image, East Asian cosmology, and speculative fiction. She co-founded Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), a decentralised platform supporting interdisciplinary collaborative practices.

Her recent film EL (2025), exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, revisits the lives of Korean women in former Manchuria, blurring lines between memory and disappearance. Her installation and publication Missing (2024) unfold as a poetic inquiry into female Taoist communities, displaced sanctity and the generative power of being lost.

She has exhibited at institutions such as Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Kai Art Center, Tallinn; and ARKO Art Center, Seoul. She received the ars viva prize in 2021.

During her residency at CHAT, Perry will investigate the formation, transformation and cultural significance of female communities in Hong Kong and surrounding regions. Focusing on the history of female textile workers and the worship of female deities in local religions, she seeks to uncover overlooked or forgotten narratives, personal experiences and emotional landscapes, offering a nuanced perspective on the social fabric shaped by women.