Embankment

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Embankment is a large-scale installation artwork by British sculptor Rachel Whiteread, consisting of stacked translucent resin casts of cardboard boxes that transform the interior of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into a monumental, maze-like landscape.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf installation artwork
large-scale artwork
sculptor
artForm sculpture
basedOn cardboard boxes
commissionedBy Tate NERFINISHED
commissionedFor Tate Modern Turbine Hall NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Rachel Whiteread NERFINISHED
creatorInstanceOf Rachel Whiteread NERFINISHED
depicts cardboard boxes
exhibitedAt Tate Modern NERFINISHED
exhibitedIn Turbine Hall NERFINISHED
genre contemporary art
hasCharacteristic immersive
maze-like layout
monumental scale
site-specific
white, translucent appearance
inception 2005
locatedIn London NERFINISHED
location Tate Modern NERFINISHED
materialUsed resin casts
translucent resin
movement conceptual art
contemporary art
minimalism
notableFor large number of repeated cast units
transforming Turbine Hall into a maze-like landscape
use of casts of ordinary cardboard boxes
notableWork Embankment NERFINISHED
occupiesSpace interior of Turbine Hall
openingDate 2005
partOfSeries Unilever Series NERFINISHED
theme absence
domestic space
industrial architecture
memory
storage and containment
usesTechnique casting
repetition
stacking

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Rachel Whiteread notableWork Embankment