Feng Zhixuan
With the death of each narwal, a coconut tree and a palm tree are born – Palm Tree
Materials : Aluminum, new countryside streetlights, resin 196, glass fiber
Year : 2024
In the distant and harsh cold of the Arctic, the narwal appears and disappears. With its long, spiral tusk, it comes closer than any other creature in the world to the mythical image of a unicorn, making the narwal a life form that straddles the line between the real and the fictional. The artist has created a mold of a narwhal skull and combined it with three elongated forms like streetlights and tropical plants, shaping a new revolutionary artwork.
In recent years, Feng Zhixuan’s sculptures have increasingly focused on engaging with various forms of “life”—animal, artificial, plant, and geological. The relationships between these life forms are expressed as an open process, accompanied by the inorganic’s reverse intervention in the evolution of organic life. His sculptures poetically bind the histories of various materials (organic, inorganic, and even fossil) together.