GridHaus

GridHaus is part of a series of installations that employ projected videos, grid animations, and minimal sculptural objects. Collectively, these artworks delve into rave culture as a sanctuary for escape from heteronormativity.

GridHaus explores the power of the grid as a design tool—a tool that organizes and constructs our world. Grids shape our cities, architecture, pixels, posters, and even the text on this webpage. GridHaus envisions public ideology as a grid structure of boxes that influences us, moulding us into its conforming shape.

Yet, the grid is not merely a construct but also a net that captures those who deviate from the prescribed form, resulting in their otherness and segregation. For the uninitiated, the warehouse is a stark environment for the distribution of products—dusty brown boxes, storage cages, and inventory tables. But for others, it serves as a site of sexual liberation, fantasy, and communal celebration—a dance party, a rave.

My exploration in GridHaus involves animating the grid to be ever-changing, ensuring its form is never static. In this transformation, the grid becomes a flexible ideology that allows everyone to pass through. It challenges the notion that boundaries are rigid, inviting viewers to question the framework that defines their existence.

GridHaus is complimented with BreakHaus.