RetroMetro (2004-2006)

Except for the Millennium Underground, the interior design of the stations of the metro lines (M2, M3) bring into our minds the Socialist stylistic touch of the 1970s and ’80s. These spaces and buildings both symbolically and nostalgically recall life phases of many generations, and also their interactions with Budapest.

Then again, in our time some modifications have been made which could be considered as modernizations (on the line of the so-called „red metro” – M2), but the stations themselves still show a breathtaking cavalcade in form and color – such as the pomp of dirty neons, complicated ceramics and paintings on the wall, steel pillars and furniture embracing a brutal palette of colors.

Sweet squish (kitsch), charmingly tasteless conditions. The nowadays fashionable word „retro” refers to the fact that these stations will most probably show a different view 10-20 years later. Still our series have already received a function to recall the past, since the facade of many stations that have already been photographed has changed in the meantime.

(Shot on film – Horizon 202 panoramic camera)