Rachel Whiteread, a British sculptor, delves into themes of absence and the memory of places through sculptures that give form to emptiness, aligning her work with movements such as minimal and conceptual art. Inspired by the plaster models of Luigi Moretti, she uses an original process to create volumes from empty spaces, thus materializing the invisible.

Educated at Brighton Polytechnic and the Slade School of Fine Art in London, Whiteread began her career in 1988 at the Carlisle Gallery with the work "Closet," an interior casting of a wardrobe. She continued to explore this technique by casting various everyday objects, revealing their hidden aspects and lesser-known uses, such as sinks and autopsy tables, using a variety of materials including plaster, resin, and rubber, often in monochrome.

In 1993, she won the Turner Prize for "House," a concrete casting of the interior of a Victorian house, becoming the first woman to receive this distinction. The work transforms void into solid, the personal into monumental, symbolizing a mausoleum or memorial that fixes a negative space.

Whiteread represented the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and subsequently created notable public commissions such as "Water Tower" in New York and the "Holocaust Memorial" in Vienna. Her works, including casts of everyday objects and works on paper, are present in major public collections and continue to influence the field of contemporary sculpture.