Red House

The house is usually a protected and protecting space. All our primitive needs lie down safely in our birdhouse, we scrutinize the world from our watchtower. We are ready to defend this place and its stories by all necessary means.

This private space, where the walls and the floor leak memories, is only an ephemeral construction of which only the story will remain.

Thierry Grootaers hereby presents us a model of the family bungalow that could also serve as a shelter for birds and insects or a doll house. His work is a combination of patterns of our daily life arising from rural architecture, interior decoration and his collection of images that he cut out of pop culture books and magazines. Warm colors dominate his pictorial compositions. This Red House is entirely covered with a bright red tint, which could refer to the movement Arts & Crafts (19^th century, London), so called for the use of red bricks with organic structures, but also to Jimi Hendrix’s most played blues piece.