Name: Substitute
Start: 2026-03-24T10:00:00
End: 2026-05-16T19:00:00
Location: Gagosian London

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)