Interface — Owl Skeleton, Linxia Basin, Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Six Million Years ago
2024
Ink on silk
173 × 113 cm（without scroll)
252 × 127.5 cm（with scroll)
In this artwork, Xu Zhen portrays a webpage interface showing owl fossils from northeastern Tibet, dating back 6-9.5 million years to the late Miocene Epoch. The artist adopts the style of Chinese landscape painting to explore themes of time and mortality, diverging from traditional landscape narratives. By linking "Tibet" and "fossils," Xu Zhen merges human history with Earth's natural history.
