Materials	plaster, wood and felt
Height:	cm. 160.00
Width:	cm. 88.00
Depth:	cm. 37.00

 

Rachel Whiteread

03.02.07 | 01.05.07

Untitled (Torso) 1992 Untitled (Floor) 1994 In Out IV 2000 In Out IX 2004 In Out XIII 2004 Untitled 2000 Slab (Plug) 1994 Flowers 2005 Rest 2005 Lean 2005 Untitled (Sixteen Spaces) 1995 Untitled (Amber Bed) 1991 Untitled (Black Bed) 1991 Yellow Leaf 1989 Ledger 1989 Village 2006

RACHEL WHITEREAD

Closet

1988

 

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Closet is one of the first sculptures Whiteread ever produced. She made it by making a cast of the inner space of an old wooden closet, in which all that was left inside was a partition with five shelves. The artist seeks to immortalize an everyday, familiar object, bound up above all with memories of her childhood. She recreates it materially by covering the form in black felt plaster which serves to convey the sense of enfolding darkness, fear and fascination experienced as a girl in that intimate and secret space, evocative - as the title suggests - of dark fantasies.