Cabin

By Rachel Whiteread

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Rachel Whiteread’s instal­la­tion Cab­in con­tin­ues the artist’s inter­est in pro­duc­ing evoca­tive sculp­tures of neg­a­tive spaces and struc­tures. In this case, the artist has sit­ed a con­crete cast of the inte­ri­or of a sim­ple cab­in, a place sug­ges­tive of retreat and intro­spec­tion. Sit­ting mod­est­ly on the hill­side of Dis­cov­ery Hill over­look­ing New York Har­bor, the sculp­ture cre­ates a sense of con­tem­pla­tive qui­et and dis­tance from the bus­tle of the city across the water. Strewn around the cab­in are numer­ous bronze casts of dis­card­ed objects includ­ing bot­tles, cans and oth­er refuse; some of these objects were sourced on the Island itself. 

Gov­er­nors Island Arts presents its pro­gram with the vision­ary sup­port of the Ford Foun­da­tion, as well the Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, the Cha­ri­na Endow­ment Fund, Don­ald R. Mullen Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion, Stavros Niar­chos Foun­da­tion, Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, The Gottes­man Fund, Don­ald A. Pels Char­i­ta­ble Trust, the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts, and the New York State Coun­cil on the Arts with the sup­port of the Office of the Gov­er­nor and the New York State Legislature.