Ghost 1990

This is Rachel Whiteread’s ‘Ghost’, a sculpture cast from the interior of a Victorian living room. Imagine Whiteread there, filling every nook and cranny with liquid plaster, waiting for it to harden, then peeling away the walls like skin. This piece isn't just about the shape, it's about the air that once lived inside. The very idea of negative space as something solid, something you can touch, is flipped on its head. Look at the surface—it's got this ghostly, muted color, almost like a memory fading. I see the quiet moments, the conversations held, the lives lived within those walls now turned inside out. Whiteread shows how art is an echo chamber, forever in conversation with the past, making the invisible visible. The echoes of the room are solid and tangible, turning absence into a presence.