Opening March 26 at Gagosian’s Davies Street gallery in London, Substitute brings together new sculptures and recent photographs by Rachel Whiteread that continue her long-standing exploration of absence, memory, and negative space. The exhibition centers on large wall-mounted reliefs made by pressing papier-mâché pulp onto weathered barn doors and gates, then covering the resulting forms in pigmented silver and copper leaf, alongside two transparent resin casts of sash windows in blue and pink. Also on view are new small-scale fiberglass sculptures cast from objects Whiteread found while mudlarking, painted in bright colors and presented in dialogue with photographs that capture chance material encounters and understated traces of everyday life. Across the exhibition, Whiteread moves between opacity and transparency, solid form and void, using one medium to echo another while drawing attention to the residue of use, time, and disappearance.
Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Morning Light), 2026 Resin 49 7/16 x 27 7/16 x 6 1/8 inches (125.5 x 69.7 x 15.5 cm)
Untitled (Seaside), 2026 Resin 27 3/8 x 13 11/16 x 5 13/16 inches (69.5 x 34.8 x 14.8 cm)
© Rachel Whiteread Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Courtesy Gagosian
| Hours | 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM |
| Venue | Gagosian London |
| Type | Exhibition |
| Duration | 53 Days |
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Gagosian
Established by Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles in 1980, Gagosian is a global gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art that employs more than three hundred people at nineteen exhibition spaces across the United States, Europe, and Asia. In addition to its galleries, Gagosian is at the forefront of the digital marketplace with innovative online viewing rooms, timed to coincide with major art fairs, that include highly desirable works by today’s leading artists, transparent pricing, historical scholarship, and insightful market analysis. Gagosian works with a diverse array of marquee living artists, including Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Rachel Feinstein, Urs Fischer, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Andreas Gursky, Hao Liang, Michael Heizer, Damien Hirst, Jia Aili, Titus Kaphar, Anselm Kiefer, Rick Lowe, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Brice Marden, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Nancy Rubins, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, Richard Serra, Taryn Simon, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Sze, Adriana Varejão, Jeff Wall, Mary Weatherford, Rachel Whiteread, and Jonas Wood, as well as masters of design Frank Gehry and Marc Newson.
