The solo exhibition by artist Thierry Oussou (1988, Benin, lives and works in Amsterdam and Benin) combines new and recent work in the Coach House. Especially for this exhibition, Oussou will create a site-specific sculpture, made of natural materials from the surrounding area, which will be installed in the gardens of the estate. In his featured sculptures and installations, the artist also uses simple, natural materials.

Part of the exhibition Growing Poetics in Wijlre is a new series of paintings. Oussou mostly paints and draws on black paper and in life-size formats. His paintings are created in a distinctive drawing-like, expressive style and show distorted figures, faces, objects and symbols. People are often the subject; in recent years, Oussou has developed an interest in the theme of 'labour' and his figures refer to working people.

Made possible by the support of the province of Limburg, Gemeente Gulpen-Wittem, Elisabeth Strouven Fund, Outset Netherlands and Mondriaan Fund.