Street View

The exhibition “Street View“ shows the city in the sense of its ordinary. Events or objects that seem mundane and repetitive that they fade into the background of our consciousness as quiet. Like a queue, authorities on a work break, staircases that connect apartments, a pothole to a manhole. Nonetheless, it seems so much more than that: when does waiting in line worth it? Is there authority above authority? Is the stairwell private or public space? Are holes the fear of the unknown? These street views we captured are the routines, the self-repeating patterns of a mechanism under the greater harmony, a seemingly universalised law of nature in which everything was as it always has been and always will be.

Yet, we forget that the same view can carry different meanings. Exhibition “Street View” engages people to look into the ordinary urban view with an exhibition structure built with temporary construction site material to immerse the questions we raised into a made-up construction site scene.

Artists
Anaïs Lian Nyffeler
André Santos Martins
Jens Tiemann
Katharina Aae
Manja Ebert
Özcan Ertek

Curators
Erik Anton Reinhardt
Fang Tsai

Photo Credit Erik Anton Reinhardt