Untitled (Read)

Rachel Whiteread's sculptures solidify space. Casting directly from everyday objects such as books, tables, chairs, doors and a house, the artist makes manifest the spaces in, under, on or between things. Whiteread's familiar subjects are landmarks of shared human experience, thus charged with social and psychological content.

Untitled (Read) is a cast of the space around two bookshelves representing a small library of absent books. A collection of books is the materialization of knowledge, which characterizes the human experience. Ghostly traces of the real books remain-like the memories of much-enjoyed novels-as delicate, watery stains of color, left from the page edges of the original volumes. What remains is a residue or reminder, a space of oscillation between presence and absence.