Chen Zhe, Bees & The Bearable

Bees & The Bearable

Chen Zhe

Publisher
Jiazazhi Press
Year
2018
Specifications
1 + 19 saddle-stitched booklets
260 x 210 x 25 mm
280 pages
75 colour plates, 40 grayscale journals and letters
Third printing
Issued with Pick Your Poison, a collection of eight interviews (2011-2022)

We are excited to announce the coming of the 3rd printing of Bees & The Bearable

her first collection of interviews. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the completion of Bees & The Bearable, Pick Your Poison highlights 8 in-depth dialogues between Chen Zhe and her peers spanning from 2011 to 2022, with a special feature of the artist’s latest correspondence with her long-time friend, writer and filmmaker, Ag. The one-on-one conversation has been crucial throughout the 15 years of Chen Zhe’s practice. By presenting these two books that echo her persistent method of creating, we invite you to revisit both the artwork and the back stage, and to discover the artist’s labor and process that is at the same time painstaking and fulfilling.

restores Chen Zhe’s practice as an ongoing process of exploration, discovery and research. What happens when actions that can jeopardize one's existence, such as hurting one's own body, in return serve the purpose of understanding the existence itself? Should we see it as a fluky escape, or a relief from the weight of modern life? While the individual response may differ, the book illustrates that there still lies psychological connectedness that undoubtedly link each of us together. Everything else follows from there.

was awarded the Best Photobook of the Year by Kassel Fotobookfestival in 2016.

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