Sunday 22 April 2012

Rachel Whiteread



I've recently been looking into Rachel Whiteread's work. Her casts of objects, show all the internal marks and features of the objects long after the object itself is gone. A trace of the object still visible, documenting it's existence.



Her piece "House" shows this wonderfully. A sculptural cast of a house that was going to be demolished. Her work keeps the idea of the house alive (well,an internal mirror copy)


I like this idea of preserving something. A mark of it being there, even though it's no longer there itself...this I guess is what I'm trying to explore at the moment.

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