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Rachel Whiteread — Cast Rooms
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Surface as Memory
OBS-ART-031
Spatial Construction
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-031
Origin:
London
Era:
1990s–present
Themes / Lineage:
interior logic • boundary imprint
Field Notes:
absence • cast • interior
Quiet Modernism appears here as surface recording duration over time.

Surface as Memory

Rachel Whiteread — Cast Rooms

Traces accumulate gradually.

Marks persist.

Time remains visible.

What accumulates over time?
Surface is often treated as immediate, yet traces persist. Marks remain without emphasis. What continues is time registered gradually.

Surface is often treated as immediate, yet traces persist.

Marks remain without emphasis.

What continues is time registered gradually.

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