theEYE Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years House now demolished cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in Londons East End Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside around and beneath furniture floors and staircases Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her bestknown sculptures including Ghost her first cast of the space inside a complete room and Monument which established a shimmering presence in Londons Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001