Poster image of “Phantom Garden” ©Ulsan Art MuseumThe
Ulsan Art Museum presents a solo exhibition “Phantom Garden” by media artist
duo Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, through March 23, 2025 at the XR-Lab, the
museum’s space dedicated to media art. This exhibition was curated to freshly
observe the climate/environmental issue in particular and investigate
alternative future possibilities through the artists’ multifaceted perspectives.
“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. Moon Kyungwon & 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.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
