With the argument that “We do not see the world’s spaces, but experience our fields of vision,” the cognitive biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela speak of the integration of diverse perspectives. Our knowledge and understanding of something is limited to the parts revealed as concrete forms before our eyes. Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho have been exploring a ceaseless defiance and inquiry regarding what we thus cannot know and what is impossible to realize. This exhibition was curated to freshly observe the climate/environmental issue in particular and investigate alternative future possibilities.

Phantom Garden departs from a virtual story tracking past humanity’s footprints and environment on an Earth that unknown, new life-forms visited following humanity’s downfall. Their attention heads toward plants, which were mostly the producers of the food chain, and not humans, who were the Earth’s apex predators. With geometric and abstract images in the XR-Lab space, Phantom Garden works out the process of organisms possessing high-level intelligence researching and restoring a botanical world like archaeologists.

The images unfolding in an unknown space are partly like powerfully magnified fungi spores and partly reminiscent of a vast cosmic landscape, like a star cluster wandering in the universe. While encompassing as one the micro and macro worlds, in which not even the laws of physics are integrated, the abstract and fragmented imagery reveals life as an independent world embracing unique individual narratives, and not the nature capitalist civilization excluded and treated as the Other.

Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, who have been presenting well-made video pieces through a cinematic grammar and system, offer an experience of a transcendent space-time by finely and exquisitely producing the XR-Lab space in this exhibition. The hope is that viewers will go beyond the climate issue humanity faces and reconstruct Earth’s history, which had been written around people, and discover new possibilities through this exhibition.