Estación central de Rotterdam

The scene presented through the peephole on this work is a recreation of the Central Station in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The artist carefully reconstructed this image from a tourist postcard that his father sent him during a European tour in the 1950s. By looking through the small lens, we are invited into a scene that is arrested in time and strangely evocative of a melodramatic movie or novel. Gordín's work explores memory and parallel realities through small shifts in perception. Indeed, the brightly colored box of Rotterdam Central Station is not unlike a magic trick that takes us back in time or deep into someone else's personal memories.