Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial

The paper offers a reading of the work artist Rachel Whiteread. reception Whiteread's has focused on its site-specific, symbolic and memorial nature, understood as series mediations metonymies for hidden social personal contexts histories. claims that such accounts overlook what may be more radical disquieting aspect Whiteread’s work; sculptures not primarily concerned with memory work, but rather limitations failures thereof. Through this other reading, reflects nature relation, relation one to other, possibilities thinking irreducible any specific property, attribute, substance, or predicate. Following Whiteread, sets out ways in which we understand know irreducibility, arguing that, presenting us limits engage another mode signification. Specifically, de-signification. Hence, proposes ‘theory de-signification’; de-signification describing naming by way irreducibility make themselves known other.