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Pick Your Poison

Pick Your Poison

Chen Zhe

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The title of Pick Your Poison is inspired by Rubiyt of Omar Khayym: While you live/Drink! for, once dead, you never shall return. It means relentlessly exhausting life. Editing this collection of dialogues with writers, critics, scholars and designers, artist Chen Zhe re-examines her artistic experience from the last decade, frequently calibrated: between unconscious seeing and conscious blindness, between completed artworks and forthcoming projects, and between a roaming self and an unchanging self. After all, the life of a creation needs to be judged by time, but the life of an artist is his/her own responsibility: a daily practice as natural as breathing, a career path leading to one challenge after another, or a sensuous expression of the most intimate emotions these constitute most of the artists life.

Pick Your Poision, edited by Chen Zhe

Format: Hardback, 352 pages

Dimensions: 215 135 20 mm

Design: Cheng Yinhe

Language: Chinese, English

Printing round: 2023-2, first edition, first printing

 

Table of Contents

To the Border, Unravel! Strike Out!

The Sky Writes Straight Lines with Curves

Creating as a Process of Fine-Tuning

All Suffering Yielded to Changes into Serenity

Nothing Is Unbearable

Live in the Afterglow

Chen Zhe & Guang Yu in Conversation on the Artists Book

Open Wounds on Your Body and Leave Life in Them

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