RED ROOM 2000 - 2007

Curator: This is Robert Therrien's *Red Room*, currently residing at the Tate. The dimensions of the displayed internal room are about 2438 x 1956 x 2667 mm. What's your initial response to this immersive installation? Editor: Claustrophobia! The sheer density of objects, all bathed in this intense red, it's both fascinating and overwhelming. There's a kind of manic energy here. Curator: Red often carries potent symbolic weight: passion, anger, danger. Therrien creates a space ripe with implied narratives and emotional intensity. Red signifies the interior, the raw, in this installation. Editor: Absolutely, and the choice to immerse the viewer so completely, it implicates us. What is it about our culture that allows something so intensely private to be displayed and experienced publicly? Curator: Good point. It's a testament to the power of objects to evoke collective memory, the shared understanding of colour psychology, and cultural context. Editor: I am intrigued by its implications. Curator: Indeed, an experience not easily forgotten.