
REVIEWS
BEIJING
Galerie Urs Meile
Cheng Ran
Diary of a Madman
CHENG RAN, Mongrel and Black Kite (Diary of a Madman – Hong Kong), 2017,
Multi-video installation, dimensions variable. Installation view of “Diary of a Madman”
at Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile.
In Lu Xun’s seminal 1918 short story A Madman’s Diary, a paranoid man becomes convinced that those around him are cannibalistic, and are plotting to eat him. Marked as the first work of modern Chinese literature, the story’s leitmotif is an…