In her work “There ain’t a place like this”, Simone Wenth explores how the former Iron Curtain has shaped both the landscape and the lives of people in the small villages and forgotten towns along its path. Like a limb poorly reattached, these places bear deep scars and lasting marks. Decades of division shaped not only the people and their relationships but also the land itself. Can they ever truly heal and grow back together as one?

For this project, Simone Wenth travels through her new adopted home along the former inner-German border. Along the way, she searches for parallels to her own childhood and youth on Austria’s eastern frontier. She feels drawn to the pull of these places, to the sense of belonging and of home within a landscape that is foreign, yet at the same time strangely familiar.

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