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The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread: EMBANKMENT

Shaun told me about this artist: For the Turbine Hall of the TATE modern, the british artist Rachel Whiteread created a gigantic labyrinth-like structure, entitled EMBANKMENT, made from 14,000 casts of the inside of different boxes, stacked to occupy this monumental space. The form of a cardboard box has been chosen because of its associations with the storage of intimate personal items and to invoke the sense of mystery surrounding ideas of what a sealed box might contain.