This is a sculpture: a concrete cast of a house (scheduled for a demolition).

How to conduct such a big project/sculpture? How this trace of the object (not the object itself or its image, but the inverted version of it; the air, replaced by the concrete) reflects the actual object? How can it be perceived by the people, who used to live there? Why did Whiteread use just some house, representative for a certain slice of society, but not for herself personally, is there any ethical questions with it?

There is an already existing list of broader themes, raised by Whitereads work: "questions of house construction and of housing; our deep ambivalence about domesticity and “family values”; parenting; the relation of the “public” to the “private”; the effects of World War II in British popular memory; the relationship between art criticism and commercial journalism; notions of “neighbourhood”; and so on" (Watney, 1994, p.105).

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