Materials	resin
Height:	cm. 25.00
Width:	cm. 274.00
Depth:	cm. 396.00

 

1988| YOUNG BRITISH ART or BRITART. The desecrating spirit of youth.

Closet 1988 No Future (Sound of the Sinners) 1988 - 1989 Yellow Leaf 1989 Ledger 1989 Above All Else 1991 Untitled (Amber Bed) 1991 Untitled (Black Bed) 1991 AWAY FROM THE FLOCK 1994 Untitled (Sixteen Spaces) 1995 In Out IV 2000 Untitled 2000 Don’t think about it 2001 In Out IX 2004 In Out XIII 2004 1-Pentanol 2005 Flowers 2005 Rest 2005 Lean 2005 Village 2006

RACHEL WHITEREAD

Untitled (Floor)

1994

 

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Whiteread made her first cast of a floor in 1992 at Kassel for Documenta 9, revealing a space dense with its own mysterious history written by the signs of time and the footsteps that have traversed it. A silent witness to the fleetingness of existence, this surface is halfway between sculpture and architecture, bounding an area that can be traversed by the gaze and the body. In particular, it constitutes "the guts of the house", because it contains the remains of the lives of those who lived there. Once brought to light again, it reveals unexpected colours and reflections, like the material used to make the work here exhibited, fashioned from a negative in synthetic resin made from a previous plaster cast of the original floor.