'Linen-Cupboard-House' ('Linnenkasthuis')

Jurgen Bey

(born Netherlands, 1965)
2002

Found furniture, textiles, mattress, stone, coating Edition of 4 (plus one artist proof), no. 2 exhibited
Lent by Studio Makkink & Bey, Netherlands

Just as children imaginatively build fortresses, so Jurgen Bey used old furniture to create this guest room. It is like the gingerbread house in the classic fairy story, where Hansel and Gretel were promised sanctuary but were deceived by the witch. Their story can be understood as a parable of the loss of innocence.