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Artist Antje Schiffers and her partner Thomas Sprenger have been invited by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation to go on a search for traces. They are exploring the origins and production of building materials. They are contacting producers, geologists and industrial museums, establishing relationships and making them contributors to the exhibition. On their travels through Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, to Anatolia and Cuba, they visit cement plants, flat glass production facilities, open-cast mines and historic and contemporary brickworks. Painting and drawing are used as tools to engage in conversation with the local people. But they are also a medium for storytelling, documentation and works of art.