Rachel
Whiteread
Sculpture artist Rachel Whiteread is
the first woman to have won the Turner Prize in 1993. Her sculptures are often in the form of
casts. These casts are of ordinary
objects. Often, she will take casts of
the negative space inside an object, such as the inside of a house. One of her most famous casts is House, which is a cast she took of the
inside of a Victorian style house. Whiteread’s
series Untitled (One Hundred Spaces)
is a series of resin casts featuring the space underneath furniture. Rachel Whiteread uses plaster, rubber, and
resin in her casting process. Other
objects she has casted include bookshelves, furniture, cardboard boxes, and
many others.
I think Rachel Whiteread’s casts of
objects are interesting, especially the negative space casts. I like the idea of turning negative space
into positive space. I also like that
she thinks of this process as solidifying the residue of the years of use the
object has seen, such as the furniture resin casts. These minimalist sculptures really make the
viewer think about these places that exist in everyday life, but are rarely
noticed. I am also inspired by her works
that are displayed outside, because many of these works are the cast of the “inside”
of something, yet they are being displayed outdoors. I like the concept of her bringing the “inside”
to the “outside”.
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