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.

“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。

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 Artist’s Book
Open Wounds on Your Body and Leave Life in Them

目录
向边缘去，显影！敲击！
天空以曲线来写直线
创作是一场调音
痛苦一旦沉浸，就能化为安宁
所有事情都是可承受的
活在余光里
陈哲与广煜回顾艺术家书
把生命留在自己制造的伤口

1^st PRINTING (2023) AVAILABLE
第一版印刷 (2023) 在售中

Edition of 2000
Hardback
352 pages, 215 × 135 × 20 mm
Published by China Academy of Art Press
Presented by Jiazazhi Press
Design: Cheng Yinhe
Language: Chinese, English


印数 2000 册
硬皮精装
352页，215 × 135 × 20 mm
出版：中国美术学院出版社
出品：假杂志
设计：程音和
语言：中文，英文


ISBN: 978-7-5503-2941-6