1954

1954

Mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro, 2005 · Installation · 300 × 300 × 300 cm

A reconstruction of a Monterrey kitchen from the 1950s, Mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro turns the familiar details of domestic life into a space of memory. Appliances, half-full glasses, plates on the table and a teapot on the stove hold a moment as though it were a photograph. Colección FEMSA describes the work as a practically habitable, faithful recreation of a place within the artist’s memory—an invitation to look at the everyday through nostalgia and curiosity.

A reconstruction of a Monterrey kitchen from the 1950s, Mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro turns the familiar details of domestic life into a space of memory. Appliances, half-full glasses, plates on the table and a teapot on the stove hold a moment as though it were a photograph. Colección FEMSA describes the work as a practically habitable, faithful recreation of a place within the artist’s memory—an invitation to look at the everyday through nostalgia and curiosity.

Colección FEMSA · VII FEMSA Biennial Acquisition Award

Mauricio Gattás