《生时饮罢》内容简介
陈哲 / 中国美术学院出版社 / 2023-2 / 198 -
“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 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.