About the authors:
Matthias Messmer is an author, photographer and holds a PhD in sociology. Hsin-Mei Chuang is a cultural researcher and translator. This project is inspired by their personal experiences about “foreignness” in a globalized world.
About the book:
The modern world presents itself as a global village. Yet, we are still strangers, almost everywhere. The loss of Heimatand feelings of being caught between haunt us in the most varied places. The longing to feel “arrived” has become an omnipresent phenomenon of our time.
Migration has always been part of human history. It is a particularly topical issue today. The ways in which migrants find a new home - whether in the form of a place or a feeling - are as multifaceted as their biographies.
In this project, the two cultural researchers approached their feelings of being caught between through literature. In doing so, they anchor their inner landscapes, enriched with literary nourishment, in the outer world.
Comment:
“The poetic pictorial spaces of Hsin-Mei Chuang and Matthias Messmer tell in artistic and high-contrast staging of fremd sein ohne fremd zu sein and remind me of a sentence by Eduard Führ: ‘Home is a quality of adoption of the world, it is an aspect of Work, that is, taking in and changing reality.’
fremd sein ohne fremd zu sein is an expression of a transformation between desire and reality. The transformation between the two perspectives becomes a prerequisite for a possible change in reality.”
Isa Rosenberger, artist
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