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Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz have accompanied the transformation process of Wilhelm-Leuschner Platz - Platz der friedlichen Revolution in the centre of Leipzig for twelve years. The joint long-term photographic project "Asphalt, Stones, Shards" comprises approx. 1,500 analogue b/w medium format photographs and reflects the handling of the legacy of GDR architecture and the associated urban political conflicts.

As children, the two artists experienced the upheaval from 1989/90 onwards - both the euphoria of the peaceful revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the sobering consequences. In the publication, Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz interweave the shared photographic image layer with their different experiences in the form of biographical text fragments.

The photo book as a printed medium plays a central role in the conclusion of the project. The stillness of the place becomes visible in the performative repetition of the image motifs and forms an important basis for the photographs, which function as a space for thought.

At the MZIN bookshop in Leipzig, Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz will talk to the author and cultural scientist Christin Müller. Text fragments, both from the wonderful text "Auf dem Platz vagabundierende Zeit" written by Christin Müller for the publication, as well as the biographical fragments of memory and poetic inventories of the square woven in by Kesting and Lorenz, will be read aloud in turn.

Asphalt, stones, shards, 2021-2024
Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz, 2024

Photography + book concept: Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz
Pages: 296, size: 24 × 30 cm, DE + ENGL version
Softcover, thread-sewn brochure with printed PVC cover and inserted fanfold, offset printing
Design: Bureau Est (Ondine Pannet, David Voss)
Texts in the book: Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz
Text in Leporello: Christin Müller
Print run: 500 copies
Vexer publishing house, 2024
ISBN: 978-3-907112-60-1

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