Inside Spaces
Artist Rachel Whiteread makes sculptures of cast buildings and architectural elements by using concrete. They are forms that capture the negative spaces inside the spaces we inhabit, they also make these empty spaces visible.
"They hold a resemblance to what they were but their utilitarian purpose is now stripped away; in turn questioning our physical relationship with these commonly used objects and redefining how we interact with them now." (WhiteCube Diaries)
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial is in the same 'negative casting' mode of Whiteread's other work and presents a library where the books on library shelves are unreadable and the doors on the volume with no handles.
How does this sculpture use space and form to connect with the memorialization of Jews, 'the large number of victims and the untold stories of their lives?'
How is this sculpture connected to the buildings and spaces around it?
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| House (1993) |
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial is in the same 'negative casting' mode of Whiteread's other work and presents a library where the books on library shelves are unreadable and the doors on the volume with no handles.
This monument shouldn't be beautiful," Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal warned a crowd of around 400 gathered in Judenplatz - Jews' Square - for its unveiling. "It must hurt," he insisted, his faint voice shaking with age and emotion. (Connoly, The Guardian 2000)
How does this sculpture use space and form to connect with the memorialization of Jews, 'the large number of victims and the untold stories of their lives?'
How is this sculpture connected to the buildings and spaces around it?
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| Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Nameless Library (2000) |
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