Editing Rachel Whiteread (section)

===''Ghost''===
After her first solo exhibition, Whiteread decided to cast the space that her domestic objects could have inhabited. She applied for grants, describing the project as "mummifying the air in a room."<ref name=Tusa2004>{{cite interview |last=Whiteread |first=Rachel |interviewer=[[John Tusa]] |title=The John Tusa Interviews - Rachel Whiteread |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ncxzw |publisher=[[BBC Radio 3]] |date=4 January 2004}}</ref> She completed ''Ghost'' in 1990.<ref name="Ina Cole"/> It was cast from a room in a house on Archway Road in north London, much like the house she grew up in.<ref name=Burn2005>{{cite news |last=Burn |first=Gordon |title=Still breaking the mould |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/oct/11/art |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 October 2005}}</ref> The road was being widened, and the house was torn down. She used plaster to cast the parlor walls and ceiling in sections and assembled them on a metal frame.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Rachel Whiteread: "Ghost" |url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/video/rachel-whiteread.html |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref>

''Ghost'' was first shown at the nonprofit [[Chisenhale Gallery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/rachel-whiteread/|title=Archive Past Exhibitions Rachel Whiteread|publisher=Chisenhale Gallery|access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref> It was purchased by [[Charles Saatchi]] and included with other works by Whiteread in his first ''[[Young British Artists|Young British Art]]'' show in 1992.<ref name=KentCork1999>{{cite book |last1=Kent |first1=Sarah |author2=Richard Cork |author3=Dick Price |title=Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade |year=1999 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-6389-4 |page=18}}</ref> In May 2004 a fire in a [[Momart]] storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including, it is believed, some by Whiteread. However, ''Ghost'' had recently been moved from the warehouse to the new [[Gagosian Gallery]] in London.<ref>{{cite news |last=Higgens |first=Charlotte |author2=Vikram Dodd |title=50 years of British art lies in ashes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/27/thebritartfire.arts1 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 May 2004}}</ref> The work was acquired by the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] in the autumn of 2004.<ref>{{cite news |last=Richard |first=Paul |title=In the Anti-Room, No One's Home |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33147-2004Nov7.html |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=8 November 2004}}</ref> According to the National Gallery, "She has worked on every scale, defining the space between positives and negatives, public and private, and manufactured and handmade objects, always with concision, intelligence, beauty, and power."<ref>{{cite web |title=Ghost |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.131285.html |website=Art Object Page |year=1990 |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>