2001
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Herringbone Floor is a 2001 by Rachel Whiteread, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Rachel Whiteread turns a simple floor pattern into something unexpected. She casts the empty spaces between wooden blocks, not the blocks themselves. The result is a quiet piece about what’s missing as much as what’s there. This print is small but shares her big ideas. Like her famous cast of a terraced house, it asks us to feel the weight of history in everyday shapes. Look up the artist Whiteread, Rachel.
Rachel Whiteread's *Herringbone Floor* (2001) is a laser-cut relief in 0.8mm Finnish birch plywood, derived from a drawing of a parquet floor and tracing its grid-like pattern of interlocking, irregular rectangles. The work translates the negative space between wooden blocks into a sculptural form, maintaining the artist's focus on absence and presence. Signed and dated by Whiteread, it exists as one of an edition of 450.
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Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts.
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