The catalogue 'Meer ohne Horizont' documents the works of Ursula Neugebauer from 2018 onwards using
photographs and essays and is the third volume in a series entitled 'aus der Haut gefahren' and 'L'Inconnue',
which began in 2006. The main part of the catalogue is the chapter 'black snow'.
Since 1998 Ursula Neugebauer has regularly visited the Polish village of Dzwonów, formerly
Schellendorf, in what was then Lower Silesia, where her mother
was born in 1931 and where she grew up until 1945. However, she never
returned to her home village after her flight to western Germany and
until her death in 1999. The current village dwellers originally stem from
Ukraine, which was then eastern Poland and was claimed by the Soviet
Union after World War II, accompanied by the forced resettlement of the
Polish population. The work Black Snow associates sculptural and filmic
elements based on years of research. My mother's silence and the stories
relayed by the current villagers, with their own experiences of flight,
overlap and permeate one another: an epigenetics that invasively includes
the surrounding vegetation and becomes an all-encompassing community
of fate.
