Life Art Project
-The Third Eye-
Life Art Project | “The Third Eye”
“The Third Eye” is a Life Art project initiated by Dr. Huang Mei.
It emerges from her personal life experience and unfolds with the body as its central point of departure.
Through the medium of photography, the project explores how the body is seen, understood, and defined by social structures, while opening up a way of seeing that differs from everyday perception.
Origin of Project
The body is not an abstract concept.
It is the real starting point of every lived life.
Through long-term life experience, Dr. Huang Mei gradually recognized that certain bodily conditions are often ignored, avoided, or even considered “not meant to be seen” within society.
“The Third Eye” begins from this reality and seeks, through artistic practice, to re-establish the relationship between body, gaze, and dignity.
Visual Language & Methodology
The project uses the ostomy bag as a highly embodied visual medium.
The photographic works do not aim for shock or sensationalism. Instead, they employ a restrained and direct visual language, making the real presence of the body visible and inviting viewers into a slower, more attentive mode of looking.
Here, photography is not merely documentation, but a process of re-perceiving embodied experience.
Collaboration & Artistic Process
In the summer of 2025, Dr. Huang Mei met photographer Ma Xiaojing in Berlin. Based on a shared concern with embodied experience and modes of seeing, they began the ongoing collaborative creation of “The Third Eye.”
The project is not about presenting a “special body.”
Rather, it is an artistic inquiry into how bodies are viewed and how states of life are understood.
Through imagery and artistic context, viewers are invited to reconsider:
What is regarded as “normal”?
What remains unseen?
How can we develop a more genuine understanding of others’ bodily experiences?
Plan
Project Duration:
“The Third Eye” is a long-term, continuously evolving and open-ended art project.Artistic Goal:
Completion of 100 selected photographic works by 2026.Forms of Presentation:
Art exhibitions
Public presentations
Art collecting and sales
The project will be presented publicly through exhibitions and dialogue-based formats at different stages of its development.
Participation & Support
Photographers from diverse backgrounds and artistic contexts are invited to participate in the project, working collectively around embodied experience, ways of seeing, and states of life.
Participating photographers contribute their independent visual languages, becoming part of the evolving structure of “The Third Eye”, while respecting the core position of the project and expanding it through diverse image-based practices.
If you are a photographer
interested in visual expressions of the body, perception, and lived experience,
we welcome you to contact us to explore possibilities for participating in “The Third Eye.”