Rachel Whiteread

I like the idea of making something permanent out of nothing.

My work is about the history of materials.

I'm interested in the physical presence of things.

I want to make people think about their own mortality.

I'm trying to make something that's both real and imagined.

I like the idea of making something that's both familiar and strange.

My work is about the power of the everyday.

I'm interested in the narrative of objects.

I want to make people look at the world differently.

I'm trying to make something that's both simple and profound.

I want to make sculpture that is about absence and presence, about what is not there as much as what is.

The cast is a way of preserving something that is ephemeral, like memory itself.

My work is rooted in the domestic, in the everyday objects that shape our lives.

Sculpture for me is a way to explore the negative spaces we inhabit.

I am interested in the traces left by human presence, the ghosts of rooms and objects.

Art should provoke questions about how we remember and forget.

The house is a symbol of shelter, but also of loss when it's gone.

Casting allows me to invert reality, to make the inside out.

Memory is not static; it's something we rebuild every time.

I don't make monuments; I make quiet interventions in space.