Untitled (Air Bed II) 1992

Rachel Whiteread made this, Untitled (Air Bed II), which is like a painting made from absence. Instead of adding material to a surface, she's taken something away, revealing a negative space that's strangely solid. I can imagine her pouring plaster into an air bed, waiting for it to harden, then peeling away the rubber, like skin. What's left is this ghostly, beige echo. Those lines, once soft and yielding, are now rigid, like memories set in stone. It makes you wonder about the traces we leave behind, the impressions we make on the world. Like when you stand up from sitting for a long time. Whiteread's work makes me think of other sculptors like Eva Hesse, who also played with casting and negative space. There's this sense of vulnerability, of things being both present and absent at the same time. It's a reminder that art can be about more than just what we see; it's about what we feel, what we remember, and what we imagine.