In her breakthrough 1990 work "Ghost," Rachel Whiteread created a positive from a negative, making a plaster cast of the interior void of a Victorian parlor measuring approximately 9 feet wide, 11 1/2 feet high, and 10 feet deep. Whiteread has said of this sculpture that she was trying to mummify the air in the room, hence the title. Whiteread created "Ghost" over a period of three months in an abandoned building at 486 Archway Road, North London, covering the interior walls with multiple plaste

🏛️ Born in 1963, Rachel Whiteread has lived and worked for most of her life in London. Her sculptures are made using the technique of casting, with materials such as plaster, rubber, resin, concrete and metals. ‘Untitled (Stairs)’ is one of three casts of staircases Whiteread made in 2001 from a building in Bethnal Green, London. Through the process of casting, Whiteread has transformed the stairs into an abstracted geometric object. This has combined physical familiarity with a mental conundru