DISSOLUTIONS–Mooni Perry

The video installation EL (2025) forms the core of Mooni Perry’s solo exhibition at Kunst Raum Mitte. In her work, Perry combines music, collective research, and cinematic staging. The exhibition takes as its premise the historical and cultural entanglements of East Asia in the context of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and Northeast China. Between 1932 and 1945, this region was under Japanese control as the state of Manchukuo. It was promoted as a space of new possibilities, driven by migration and promises of the future. However, as the history of the so-called ‘comfort women’—women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the war—shows, this vision was based on coercion, repression, and human trafficking.