空白空间将于2023年8月26日在顺义空间开幕陈哲在画廊的首次个展“狂热般精确”，展示其新近创作的雕塑、摄影与配有沉浸式声音元素的影像作品。展览将持续至10月7日。

艺术家陈哲常将身体经验作为谜面，在一次次的外观与内观中发现身、心、灵交织的通路，激发起观众普遍又超越性的经验。

陈哲对神秘经验的省思始于追问“黄昏”的长期项目《向晚六章》（2012至今），并在《你仍然知道的事》（2020）里延展至更为绵长的时间——远古的先祖记忆、此世的肉身痕迹、未来的命运预言，相会于入梦的“我”。

星骨仪：浑天鼓（局部）Celestial-cranial Instrument: Spherical Astrolabe (detail)，2022-2023，黄铜，铝，不锈钢丝 brass, aluminum, stainless steel wires，80×80×80(h) cm，摄影 photo: Eric Zhang

时至《狂热般精确》（2023），这一援引自博尔赫斯诗句的标题（“今晚的宇宙/有如遗忘般浩渺，狂热般精确。”）回应了前次个展中关乎遗忘与记得的辩证关系，更将上述命题置于对立又统一的整体/个体关系之间。陈哲与本次展览的合作声音艺术家Anita Pan如此考虑它：“狂热是一个无限，无所不包；精确是无限个一，不胜枚举。”无限而巨大的整体难以被人理解，谓之狂热；构筑整体的细微单位各司其职又自成宇宙，是以精确。
如此往返于宏观与微观之间，陈哲创作了雕塑系列《星骨仪》、摄影系列《偏善幻中来》和声音录像作品《向远的圆是你》，从上（星象）、下（身体）、内（心灵）、外（自然）、前（过去）、后（未来）的多重向度，以“天文”启“天问”。

星骨仪：九弦角限琴（局部）Celestial-cranial Instrument: Nine-stringed Quadrant (detail)，2022-2023，黄铜，铝，不锈钢丝 brass, aluminum, stainless steel wires，Φ300×182(h) cm，摄影 photo: Eric Zhang

人们曾以“上知天文，下知地理”称许学识 ，而上与下的交汇之处恰恰是人的身体。古人以身为度，借由观测自己在日光下的影子习得了时辰；后人为了精确地掌握时间律，基于各自的文明进一步发明了观星仪器。受此启发，艺术家将人降生时的“出生星图”和“颅骨缝图”视作人类与生俱来的两幅“地图”：星图仰天可观，却也无限遥远；缝图如此切近，生时却无法自见。通过“其上”（天文）与“其下”（头骨）的相互观照，《星骨仪》试以“天文”映“地理”、用“精确”量“狂热”，展开对如谜般命运的思辨。

偏善幻中来：月下 Eternal Ephemera: Under the Moon，2023，UV喷墨打印有机玻璃板，木框灯箱 UV inkjet printed acrylic sheet in lightbox with wooden frame，照片 image：84×120 cm，装裱 framed：86×122 cm

在摄影系列《偏善幻中来》里，陈哲将目光投注到潜藏于世间无处不在的天人关联：横亘于海边的远山仿若母神休憩呼吸的体态；月下的蜘蛛织构起数倍于其身体却精密如仪的兜网；历锤千万年而成的洞穴钟乳，像极了巨人身体里的器官构造，却也和星辉如出一辙。

超慢速录像《向远的圆是你》，配合隐身于展厅的四声道音景，将观众牵引回生命之初，宛如浸没在一具庞大腔体的内部。模糊血月下缓缓沉降的指尖，激起不断扩散又消失的同心圆，与难辨时空来去的胎动、呼吸、虫鸣、低语、梦吟于此间共振——

“用大地的第一块粘土将最后一人捏塑

把最后的丰收得来的种子播种入土：

创造天地后的第一个清晨所写下的

必将在预料中最后的黄昏被诵读。”

向远的圆是你 You Are a Circle, Expanding，2022-2023，单频4K彩色录像，四声道音轨 single channel 4K color video, four-channel sound，声音创作 sound composer：Anita Pan，7'40"，摄影 photo: 杨灏 Yang Hao

White Space presents at its Shunyi location As Precise As Fever, Chen Zhe' first solo exhibition with the gallery, showcasing recent sculptures, photographs, and a large-scale video installation with immersive sound elements. The exhibition opens on August 26, 2023 and is on view throughOctober 7.

Handling visceral experiences as puzzles to be solved, Chen Zhe explores connections between the body, the mind and the spirit through processes of introspection and ex-trospection, evoking in the viewer universal and transcendental experiences.

Chen Zhe first started contemplating the experience of mysticism in Towards Evenings: Six Chapters(2012-ongoing), a long-term researched-based project that questions the uneven time of dusk. She has expanded her research in recent years by looking into deep times: times of ancestral memories; traces of one's corporeality in this life; prophecies regarding the future and destiny; and an I that rendezvous in dreams.

星骨仪：流光盏 Celestial-cranial Instrument: Scaphe of Light，2022-2023，黄铜，LED灯 brass, LED light，环 ring：Φ155×2(h) cm，盏 scaphe：Φ98×49(h) cm，摄影 photo: 杨灏 Yang Hao

The title of the current exhibition As Precise As Fever comes from Jorge Luis Borges' poem Insomnia: The universe of this night is as vast as oblivion, as precise as fever. It responds to the dialectics between remembering and forgetting tackled in the exhibition A Slow Remembering of A Long Forgetting in 2020, positioning celestial-human relations in the conceptual space between totality and individuality, two distinct entities that relate to one another as an unity of opposites. Chen Zhe and Anita Pan, collaborating artist in You Are a Circle, Expanding: "Fever is an infinity, all-encompassing; precision is an infinite number of individuality, multiple and countless." Totality—endless, colossal and incomprehensible—is to be described as a fever; individuality, on the other hand, manifests as parts and components that integrate and constitute totality in an orderly, organised manner.

星骨仪：颅日晷 Celestial-cranial Instrument: Sutural Sundial；星骨仪：颅月晷 Celestial-cranial Instrument: Sutural Moondial，2022-2023，黄铜，玻璃透镜 brass, glass lens，43×35×35(h) cm; 46×30×35(h) cm，摄影 photo: 杨灏 Yang Hao

Concerned with addressing the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, Chen Zhe has in recent years created new bodies of work including the Celestial-cranial Instrument series of sculptures; the Eternal Ephemera series of photographs, and the video installation You Are a Circle, Expanding. Encompassing the astral (astrology), the nether (body), the internal (spirit), the external (nature), the retentional (past) and the protentional (future), As Precise As Fever commences celestial questions by inscribing celestial texts.

星骨仪：颅十二宫（局部）Celestial-cranial Instrument: Sutural Zodiac (detail)，2022-2023，黄铜 brass，12件 pieces，整体尺寸可变 overall dimensions variable，摄影 photo: 杨灏 Yang Hao

Wisdom or sagacity was once measured in terms of being well versed in "celestial texts and earthly laws." The human body is the point on which the celestial and the earthly meet. Our ancestors tell time by making innovative use of the body, observing the length of one's shadow under the sun. In pursuit of temporal precision, future generations make further developments by inventing, upon distinct civilisational foundations, a variety of astronomical instruments. Chen Zhe takes the history of astronomical instruments as a point of departure, dealing with the two maps each individual is born with: a map of one's cranial formation, and a chart of one's celestial alignments. One may observe the stars above, infinitely remote; one may not, however, examine the constellation of cranial sutures, as natural and intimate as they are. By cross-referencing heavenly and earthly inscriptions, the Celestial-cranial Instrument series aims to reflect worldly laws with celestial texts, and to measure fever with precision, pondering enigmatic fates.

In Eternal Ephemera series of photographs, Chen Zhe surveys the arcane yet omnipresent association between celestial bodies and worldly beings: a majestic mountain by the sea, whose body resembles a poised mother goddess at rest; an arachnidunder the moon, occupied with constructing an ambitious web that is disproportionately large and is as delicate as a piece of advanced technology; a cave of ancient stalactites, exposing a giant's organs, as bright as the shining stars.

偏善幻中来：心脏 Eternal Ephemera: Burning Heart，2023，UV喷墨打印有机玻璃板，木框灯箱 UV inkjet printed acrylic sheet in lightbox with wooden frame，照片 image：120×84 cm，装裱 framed：122×86 cm

The ultra-slow motion video component of You Are a Circle, Expanding, along with the four-channel soundscape sprawling across the exhibition space returns the audience to the origin of life, nurturing an experience of being immersed within a colossal cavity. Under a misty blood moon, finger tips slowly dip and irritate ripples that proliferate and disappear, resonating at the present moment with fetal movements, breathes, whirs, whispers, and dream words. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:

With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,

And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:

Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote

What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

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与光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。近年作品展出于利勒哈默尔美术馆，挪威；UCCA沙丘美术馆，秦皇岛；横滨三年展，日本；Plug In ICA，加拿大；明当代美术馆，上海；巴登巴登国立美术馆，德国；白兔美术馆，澳大利亚；第9届亚太当代艺术三年展，澳大利亚；东京都写真美术馆，日本；Para Site艺术空间，香港；OCAT当代艺术中心，深圳；广州影像三年展，广州；安仁双年展，成都；中央美术学院美术馆，北京；第11届上海双年展，上海；民生现代美术馆，上海；多伦多大学艺术中心，加拿大；尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京；Fotohof，奥地利；三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京等。

陈哲曾获赏玛格南基金会颁发的 Inge Morath 奖，三影堂摄影奖，连州摄影节新摄影奖，无忌新锐摄影奖和 FOAM Talent 摄影奖，并受邀参与法国ARTE电视台纪录片《镜头下的中国》和日本NHK电视台纪录片《青年摄影师眼中的中国》。她的出版物《蜜蜂 & 可承受的》获得卡塞尔摄影书节2016年度摄影书奖。