Xiaopeng Zhou

Working with the Stone 2.0

2018
2014
Colour pencil, Marker on sketch A4 paper and PVC
51 pieces in total

It consists of a series of drawings in which Zhou depicts paleontologists scanning fossil and archaeological finds. What is striking is that the scientists seems to pay more attention to the digitally produced computer image than to the actual stone. Zhou deepened and expanded his interest in the productive interplay between virtuality and real material, which he was able to observe in scientific research. A new series of drawings show scientists from a fictive world of research drawn with permanent markers on blue foils. They are at an even greater distance to their object of study that they seek to grasp all the more profoundly with observation methods of the future. Although they are investigating layers of rock and sediments, not a grain of sand, not a speck of dirt can be found underneath their fingernails anymore.