Here we see Reece Terris sitting in a 1950's living room. But the stairs in the background are part of the interior of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Their latest exhibition is Ought Apartment and it shows the interiors of six different apartments representing six different decades, from the 1950's to the 2000s.

... there are the valances, the pink bathroom tiles, and the red-slate hearth in the ’50s apartment; the teak cabinets, wrought-iron railing, and green shag carpet in the ’60s space; the fern-patterned wallpaper and “harvest gold” fridge of the ’70s; the heart-shaped Jacuzzi and pseudo-art-deco wall flourishes from the ’80s; and on up the tower to our own age.

Terris's interdisciplinary art examines the rapid cycling of styles and how the postwar production-and-consumption machine has fuelled our society’s compulsive desire to “update” our domestic spaces, to constantly renovate and discard, knock down and take out. Home renovation related to overconsumption is socially prescribed, Terris says, and it’s accelerating.

Check out the full story at the Georgia Straight.

Photo by Mark Mushet