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„What makes loneliness so unbearable is the loss of one’s own self which can be realized in solitude, but confirmed in its identity only by the trusting and trustworthy company of my equals. In this situation, man loses trust in himself as the partner of his thoughts and that elementary confidence in the world which is necessary to make experiences at all. Self and world, capacity for thought and experience are lost at the same time.“
(Source: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The World Publishing Company, Ohio 1958, p. 477)
Eyes, it is said, are the window to the soul. They have the ability to reflect lies, humour, pain and joy. If you look into the eyes of the people portrayed by Eric Meier, pale faces return your gaze, tired and empty. They bear witness to a long-overlooked fate in the history of East German transformation after reunification. With his „Vaterland“ (Fatherland) series of works, which shows men from a residential centre for alcoholics in Eisenhüttenstadt,…
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„What makes loneliness so unbearable is the loss of one’s own self which can be realized in solitude, but confirmed in its identity only by the trusting and trustworthy company of my equals. In this situation, man loses trust in himself as the partner of his thoughts and that elementary confidence in the world which is necessary to make experiences at all. Self and world, capacity for thought and experience are lost at the same time.“
(Source: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The World Publishing Company, Ohio 1958, p. 477)
Eyes, it is said, are the window to the soul. They have the ability to reflect lies, humour, pain and joy. If you look into the eyes of the people portrayed by Eric Meier, pale faces return your gaze, tired and empty. They bear witness to a long-overlooked fate in the history of East German transformation after reunification. With his „Vaterland“ (Fatherland) series of works, which shows men from a residential centre for alcoholics in Eisenhüttenstadt,…































































