Steve Bishop: On the Street Where You Live

Steve Bishop deals with feelings, states of mind and memories that shape us throughout our lives. In his artistic work, he usually creates spaces that allow visitors to enter staged scenes that seem both surreal and personally familiar. Steve Bishop has conceived the solo exhibition "On the Street Where You Live" for the nave of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

The three-part installation explores timelessness, the formation of a sense of community and familial status symbols. The three parts represent the connections and ruptures between childhood and adulthood. A garage of a detached house stands in the church like an optical illusion. A car is parked on the driveway, from which atmospheric jazz music streams out. Toy worlds and amateur photographs of vacation trips, for example to Disneyland, make visitors reminisce and tell stories. The artistic works show how the ideas and memories of a "beautiful" childhood are collectively longed for, reproduced and passed down through generations. At the same time, they address ageing and the accompanying change in perception and the moment of demystification of illusions believed to be right and true.

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