Deserted spaces capture the interest of the photographer Anna Lehmann-Brauns<br>(b. Berlin, 1968; lives and works in Berlin): her spaces nonetheless<br>teem with images of collective and personal recollection. In pictures that suggest<br>cool dispassion only at first glance, the artist, who studied with Joachim Brohm<br>at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig, lends her motifs, which she<br>captures using analogue technology and without artificial lighting, a mysterious,<br>forlorn, and even somewhat surreal aura. Lehmann-Brauns, who has traveled<br>the world with her camera, was in Poland when she chanced upon a factory for<br>funfair equipment and theme park décors on the premises of what used to be a<br>German yarn factory in Silesia. Covered by a highly toxic layer of fiberglass dust,<br>&quot;Laurel and Hardy&quot; stand surrounded by dwarves, angels, and beasts--they all<br>form the crumbling backdrop for a peculiar chapter in Eastern Europe's recent<br>and contemporary history. Essays by Sabine Ziegenrücker and Matthias Harder.