El Eterno Festín (2018)

Alongside the architecture of old cities like Mexico City, restaurants, bars and inns are the remnants of the past. Perhaps it is in the diners, where the best "urban archaeology" can be done. Firstly, in these spaces, a kind of historical memory remains that begins with the people who worked in them: cooks, waiters, cook helper, bar tenders, customers. Secondly, decoration, which if original may have come from decades ago, as well as the furniture and dishes. Thirdly, the public and social life that was recorded throughout the decades of the mid-twentieth century in Mexico City, in the records of the same establishments and the cultural and heritage collections of the National Libraries and Archives. Political, social, cultural life is kept in these places, like ghosts that survive in a diffuse and faded memory. In this series, we travel back in time to the mid-twentieth century in the great city of Mexico.