terra non firma

all whiteread, all the time

to follow up on monday's link to the guardian's article on rachel whiteread's mysterious project for the tate modern, all has been revealed. today's guardian discusses the installation - an enormous sculpture of white boxes - some placed irregularly, some as architectural structures. the guardian almost covers all the bases in terms of what whiteread might be referencing - a recent trip to the melting arctic icecaps, a "ghostly warehouse,"a miniature cityscape, piles of sugar lumps. what's interesting about the review is that rachel whiteread's work, regardless of scale or material, is almost always refered to as 'domestic' (and that's not necessarily an insult), and about memory and space. its whiteread's largest piece thus far, and yet it seems inescapable that she's always conceived as an artist referencing the "domestic" - it seems to be a particularly bizarre adjective for this piece. clearly, it seems her previous body of work is coloring the reviewer's perception of "embankment." for more on her career, the guardian ran a profile last week. one of these days I'll get back to talking about LA.

posted by marissa @ 10:51 AM