British artist Rachel Whiteread is well known for her original sculptures with which she seeks to express the idea of space, room, void. She does this mainly by making casts of various objects.
In one of her first works, entitled “Shovel”, she made a cast of her own back and attached a handle on top of it, so that it would resemble a shovel.
One of her larger scale works, entitled “Ghost” is yet another cast: its mould was an entire living-room in a Victorian house: Whiteread had the walls of the living-room cast in units of plaster that were then mounted together so that the structure and volume of the original Victorian living-room becomes visible. Negative imprints, such as the open fireplace clarifies that we are in fact dealing with the INSIDE of a room.
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| Rachel Whiteread: Ghost, 1990, plaster, 270x318x365cm |
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