Mysia Góra

This work is based on photos of an old and new house belonging to a German family living in Poland who had tried for 40 years to emigrate to their German homeland. Since emigration never succeeded, a new house was built 10 years ago just 20 meters away. The family only truly arrived in Poland with the construction of this prefabricated house. They left behind the 300-year-old farmhouse built by Cistercian monks, inhabited since the time of their great-grandparents.

This house becomes a symbol of flight, departure, and a failed life's dream — as if the family had to leave everything behind to flee to the house built twenty meters away. Their German homeland complete with furniture, pictures, and clothes. Meanwhile, with Poland's accession to the EU, emigration has become unnecessary. Europe has replaced this family's German homeland.