An open door onto something new, toward a different perception of oneself, toward our unconscious… The door of our imagination, a door to the future…

This door evokes a passage: by opening it, we discover a path… toward the Self… toward the inner radiance that cuts through our shadows. Shadows that make this radiance shine even brighter. 

“The doors to the world of the wild self are rare but precious. If you carry a deep scar, that is a door. If you hold an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you can hardly bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deep life, a full life, a healthy life, that is a door.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estès - Woman Who Run With The Wolves. 

The door is a guardian, keeper of something precious. It holds something of great value.

The door can be seen as a barrier, standing like a sentinel before a secret that longs to be well protected — it prevents us from knowing what, deep down, we already know. To know, to open, to enter, you need the key.

The role of our artistic exploration laboratory is to help you find the key to the door. To your door…

“I become convinced that the unconscious is not merely made up of inert matter: deep within, there is something that lives.”

Carl Gustav Jung

Red: a strong and striking color. It never goes unnoticed. As if the door itself wanted to be found…

This door has a profound impact on the one who opens it. That is why its color is so powerful. The red of the door is visible, standing out in the darkness. It is an ambivalent color, yet one that carries comfort. Bright red, linked to vitality, brings a sense of safety.

It is a color whose symbolic function surpasses that of other colors. As Michel Pastoureau reminds us:

“Red is the archetypal color, the first that humankind mastered, produced, reproduced, and declined in different shades — first in painting, later in dyeing… Red remains the strongest color, the most striking, the richest in poetic, oneiric, and symbolic horizons.”

The first prehistoric paintings were red, created with ochre found in the regions where the artists of those primitive times lived. It is this same color that men and women of the caves blew over their hands, leaving behind the trace of their humanity.

Red carries the banner of courage and determination.

It is also the color of strong, sometimes destructive emotions — emotions that the Red Door neither denies nor judges unilaterally. The Red Door welcomes these powerful emotions, a force deeply tied to life itself, one that cannot be ignored. To ignore violence, excess, anger, and impulses is to invite devastation, for what is suppressed only grows stronger and strikes out at everything in its path to be heard. Every emotion has something to say. The Red Door seeks to include the shadow within each of us by embracing these intense emotions that cross us, creating space for more pleasant feelings, and opening the way to becoming a new version of ourselves.

To allow chaos, to accept it, to integrate it — this is what leads us toward clarity.

The door is red because it represents the red thread of our stories, of our journeys. The color red — so vivid, almost impossibly conspicuous — is what allows us to move toward a resolution that carries meaning. For all those who feel lost, red remains visible. Through the fil rouge, we always find our way back.