Monday, September 9, 2013

Cabinet of Curiosity 2

Rachel Whiteread fills spaces with concrete and other substances to give validity to emptiness.

Absence creates presence; space becomes solid.

It gives the impression that everything is just a potential shell.

Her exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery shows 100 resin "spaces" which have now become the objects themselves.


These casts of library shelves evoke questions of content: the representation of what can be held in the absence/presence distinction. I think of the information held in the casted books as being removed from the work. I'm inspired by the exploration of nothingness.

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