For the last six years, as a founder sponsor of Tate modern museum, Unilever has selected the world’s greatest artists to the extensive space of Tate modern’s Turbin Hall. This year the Tuner-prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread was invited. Her work is called ENBANKMENT. 14,000 industrially fabricated cubes create a strange relationship of the visitor’s body to the space occupied by objects. The cubes are stacked up in both ordered and disordered piles, also a spectacle , an unforgettable image that reveals itself as the visitor approaches.
“An embankment is something which is built to hold back water or to support a road or railway over low ground” Whiterread has said “ I thought of it as something that was built up, and built up out of other materials”.
Biography:
Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963. After studying painting and sculpture, she had her first solo exhibition in 1993. since then she has exhibited internationally and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1997. She lives and works in London.

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