Bees & The Bearable as well as his reflections

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

Editorial Direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi

and ongoing since 2020

it talks about the workers of an apartheid tribal homeland for blacks

Bees & The Bearable as well as his reflectionsChen 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,