Le lieu propre du néant
For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. The orig...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7638 |
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| Summary: | For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. The original object disappears and a new form appears, a kind of simulacrum which is neither trace nor ruin, but a liminal and monumental object. As a form of positivist deconstruction, the object disappears by returning in the form of an archetypal image, as a new object to contemplate. Through the analysis of some of her works, this paper deepens the concepts of vestige, trace, and contemporary anti-monumentality. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |