生时饮罢-轻识

“生时饮罢！——死去不可复还” 意味着对生活不留余地的穷尽。在这本同名对话文集中，艺术家陈哲深入梳理了她在过去十年里不断自我校准的创作经验：在无意识的“看”与有意识的“盲”之间，在已经完成的与尚未到来的作品之间，在出走的自己与不变的自我之间。“作品的生命需要交予时间来评断，而艺术家的生命仍要由他 / 她自己承担。这种像呼吸一样的日常修习，层层叠加的迷你危机，或者说，滚滚红尘里的自画像”，正是它们构成了创作者的大部分时间。

The title of Pick Your Poison is inspired by Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: "While you live/Drink! — for, once dead, you never shall return." It means relentlessly exhausti...

The title of Pick Your Poison is inspired by Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: "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 artist's life.

陈哲的艺术实践始于对个体意识的探求，由此出发去识别并连通生命的普遍体验。她关注的主题往往摇摆于悖论之间：痛苦与解脱之间的身体（《蜜蜂&可承受的》）、日与夜之间的黄昏（《向晚六章》）、永恒与有限之间的命运（《你仍然知道的事》）。承袭并延展自摄影这一艺术家最初的媒介，陈哲近年的立体作品尤其关注时间感在不同的媒介与现场中的表意可能。她的工作常以长期项目的形式展开，作品之间相互注脚，最终呈现为一个不断发现与研究的过程。

陈哲，1989年生于北京，毕业于洛杉矶艺术中心设计学院，获摄影与图像学士学位。