House of Red Bamboo is comprised of a painted scaffolding structure divided into a grid with a cross passage through which visitors may enter and exit the artwork. Based in part on Rasheed Araeen’s seminal structure To Whom It May Concern (1996) – the first lawn installation completed for the Serpentine Gallery, London – this installation references the venerated artist’s long-standing investigations into geometric and architectural structures as post-Modernist representations of non-compositional forms. Configured using iconic lattice-rigged bamboo scaffolding, the piece draws immediate reference to the history and infrastructure of Hong Kong. Like Araeen’s earliest structures, it reflects a belief in egalitarian societies based on utopian ideologies. A work of inherent temporality, House of Red Bamboo channels public performance structures, part of the cultural fabric of Hong Kong used for Chinese opera and festival stages.
《紅竹屋》由塗上油漆的竹棚搭建，結構呈方型，並設有十字型通道貫穿竹棚供觀眾進出。本作品某程度上建基於藝術家拉希德．阿里安於1996年為英國倫敦蛇形畫廊創作的首個搭建在室外草坪上的裝置藝術作品《致有關者》( 1996 )（To Whom It May Concern, 1996)。《紅竹屋》延續了藝術家長久以來對幾何形狀和建築結構作為非組合性型態的後現代主義體現的研究，以其具代表性的四方竹棚搭建成裝置作品，與香港的歷史與基建設施息息相關。一如阿里安的早期作品，《紅竹屋》反映出一種以烏托邦意識形態為本的社會平等信念。竹棚是一種臨時結構，《紅竹屋》也具有同樣的意味，展現出香港文化中用於粵劇和節慶的公共表演舞台結構。
