This exhibition marks a shift for Rachel Whiteread – the clue is in the title Internal Objects, recently held at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill.
The casts we have been used to seeing are still there including this rather wonderful corrugated piece made from scrap paper, one of a pair near the entrance.
The big change however is the two white sheds, Poltergeist and Doppelgänger, ghosts of something that was once sturdy and reliable, even possibly habitable.
The effort of construction and repair becomes transformed into a poignant filigreed space, calcified and loaded with memory. Questions too. What happened? How did it come to be like this?
Doppelgänger is even more wrecked than Poltergeist, almost flattened by some overwhelming force. Natural or man-made? We cannot know. Fragments of trees are tangled in the structure. Is nature reclaiming it or is that just part of the destruction? Hope or desolation? Life or death? It’s up to you.
