Bees & The Bearable Editorial Direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi

Editorial Direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi

as well as his reflections on the contradictions and conflicts between them

when Swiss publisher Walter Keller asked him to print Frank’s The Lines of My Hand for his imprint Scalo: “You’ll both get along well on press

and ongoing since 2020

hung them in an overlapping sequence on her studio wall

Bees & The Bearable Editorial Direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-KoizumiChen Zhe's first series, The Bearable (2007 2010), is a reflective documentation of her dark, though occasionally euphoric, history of self inflicted harm. Chen continued to penetrate the psychological labyrinth of self realisation in her subsequent project Bees (2010 2012). By expanding her photographic observations with a collection of letters, dairy entries, online chat histories, quote fragments and scribbles that she exchanged with her subjects,