Sophia Kesting & Dana Lorenz have accompanied the transformation process of Wilhelm-Leuschner Platz - Square of the peaceful revolution in the centre of the city of Leipzig for over twelve years. The collaborative long-term photographic project ‘Asphalt, Steine, Scherben’ (Asphalt, Stones, Shards) comprises approx. 1,500 analogue b/w medium format photographs and reflects the handling of the legacy of GDR architecture and related conflicts in urban politics.

Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz experienced the upheaval of 1989/90 as children—both the euphoria of the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the sobering consequences. The two artists weave these shared photographic images with their distinct experiences in the publication through biographical text fragments.
The photo book as a printed medium plays a central role at the end of the project. The stasis of the site becomes visible in the performative repetition of visual motifs, forming an essential basis for these photographs, which function as a space for thought.