Cabin

By Rachel Whiteread

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Rachel Whiteread’s instal­la­tion Cab­in con­tin­ues the artist’s inter­est in pro­duc­ing evoca­tive sculp­tures of neg­a­tive spaces and struc­tures. In this case, the artist has sit­ed a con­crete cast of the inte­ri­or of a sim­ple cab­in, a place sug­ges­tive of retreat and intro­spec­tion. Sit­ting mod­est­ly on the hill­side of Dis­cov­ery Hill over­look­ing New York Har­bor, the sculp­ture cre­ates a sense of con­tem­pla­tive qui­et and dis­tance from the bus­tle of the city across the water. Strewn around the cab­in are numer­ous bronze casts of dis­card­ed objects includ­ing bot­tles, cans and oth­er refuse; some of these objects were sourced on the Island itself.