The three STRETCH exhibitions, in which some sixty objects illustrate the different phases of Alexandra Bircken’s work, was designed specifically for the Kunstverein Hannover, the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach and the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac in Ivry-sur-Seine.

This book presents variants of the installations from the first exhibitions in Hannover and Mönchengladbach, as well as a documentation of the processes, which introduce the artist’s working methods and her research on materials.