Chronicles of a Fragile Future

With News from Nowhere: Laboratory of Spring and Autumn Collection, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho continue one of the most coherent and conceptually layered projects of their practice, an inquiry into the present articulated through hypotheses about the future. The South Korean duo has long explored the intersections of art, science, ecology and philosophy, questioning linear ideas of progress and endless growth. The symbolic disappearance of spring and autumn becomes a starting point for a broader reflection on imbalance, time as a non-renewable resource and the fragility of natural and cultural systems. In the works on view, nature is no longer a backdrop but a transformed organism, marked by absences and residues, while human presence appears intermittent, almost ghostlike. Rather than staging apocalyptic narratives, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho construct suspended scenarios, images that seem to belong to an unresolved “after”. News from Nowhere functions as an open platform rather than a fixed body of work. Video, sculpture, painting and installations operate as research tools, designed to be reactivated and reconfigured over time. In this sense, the exhibition reaffirms the artists’ understanding of art as a laboratory, a space that engages with the present without offering answers, but by opening fields of possibility.