MOON KYUNGWON AND JEON JOONHO

News from Nowhere: ECLIPSE (2022-24) depicts human free will and struggle. This desperate vision, stemming from the desire to resolve the world’s inherent discord, strives for harmony and transcends reality and unreality. The protagonist-trapped within the immense grid structure with flickering dim lights— struggles to survive, relying only on a lifeboat in the vast, empty ocean. Through this, we witness human determination and will to break free from the constraints and boundaries that confine human existence, yearning for fundamental freedom.

The setting of the protagonist-aboard on a lifeboat on the endless expanse of the sear, searching for other survivors-is entirely virtual. Created by unknown entities for unknown purposes, the protagonist believes in its own existence within this restrictive virtual environment that diminishes and disassembles humanity. Trapped in this tragic world, the protagonist continues its unconscious struggle for freedom, desperately hoping to break free from the confines of the world that bind it.