19. October 2023
Photo: Screenshot from Rachel Whiteread: Things That Remain
The latest video at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with artist Rachel Whiteread, who won the Turner Prize in 1993 — the first time a woman won the prize — for House, the concrete cast of an old Victorian house.
Like Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gordon Matta-Clark, and maybe a handful of other artists, Rachel Whiteread is known and appreciated by architects because buildings are often the subject and sometimes the media of her art. Take House, the 1993 sculpture in concrete that won her the Turner Prize: the walls, floors, and roof of a three-story house were literally the formwork for the massive artwork. Whiteread has created numerous cast-in-place “buildings” since, but the video interview reveals that there is more to her artwork than concrete: other materials and other ways of working with them. Like other Louisiana Channel videos, Things That Remain is worth watching.