CAN YOU SEE ME

2005

photprint on paper

25 cm 32 cm

LOOKING INSIDE ONESELF

 Though coming from a not very individualistic society like the Chinese one of the last century, Meng Huang is deeply affected by Rilke’s comment in his letters that „we are alone… above all in the deepest and most poignant things, unspeakably alone“, and that loneliness is greatness, it is difficult but „we are to cling to the difficulty“.

Meng Huang perceives his loneliness more in the incommunicability of what he feels, in the unspeakyble than in his way of living; he has many friends with whom he enjoys intense relationships but not regular meetings. The ‚compulsion to be‘ is for him unbearable as it extinguishes the truest yearnings, the most spontaneous impulses: he prefers to ‚play it by ear‘ than to plan anything in advance.