'Memories of a beloved Place'
1990. Mona Simon is ten years old. In this Year almost all Saxons leave Transylvania, approximately 850 years after their arrival, migrating “back” to Germany.
A whole people collectively decide to virtually disappear.
The young photographer’s work deals with exile and remembrance and takes place in the midst of an individually, as well as collectively painful context - that of the vast disappearance of a nation. Language and music can breath new life into the past world, yet memories cannot be photographed. At most, the origin, the place, where the memory was formed, can be shown in its present materialistic state and the souvenir is embedded in this reality.
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