Stories from the Unspectacular

2021
PopUp exhibition
residence program OInstituto, Porto (PT)

Architecture affects us in the form of size, material, interior space, exterior space, protection, security, solidity, stability, materiality, freedom, boundaries, belonging.
The qualities of walls, tags and advertising on the walls or the floor we walk on have an even more direct effect on our consciousness.
The exhibition draws attention to these close surroundings, which often remain secondary

In „Stories from the Unspectacular“ the artist describes an appropriation of urban space with the attitude of a roving landscape painter. He adapts elements of his immediate surroundings, sharpens his eye for the „spectualization“ of urban space, and in doing so he creates his own street romanticism. In the format of a PopUp exhibiton Toni Ehrhardt opened the space as a „natural reserve“ for some of Porto`s inconspicuous street species, that soon will probably become extinct.