After three very successful months at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro with an estimated number of visitor of ten thousand, it's São Paulo's turn to host one of Britain's leading sculptor, Rachel Whiteread. he will be in São Paulo for the opening of the exhibition, to be held in the imposing space of MAM from March 18 to May 3. In all, 21 sculptures will be exhibited. Two of them were specially prepared by the artist in her London studio for the exhibitions in Brazil, which are being curated by Paulo Venancio Filho from Rio and Ann Gallagher from the British Council in London. The exhibition was considered by Brazil´s largest newspaper O Globo, as one of the ten best in 2003.

See the images from the exhibition in Rio de Janeiro.

Rachel Whiteread was born in 1963 and studied sculpture at the Slade School in the mid-80s. Her work predominantly involves casting an area which has its form prescribed by everyday objects, for example tables or baths. These areas are often exactly defined by the object surrounding them, as in Untitled (Pink Torso), a cast of the inside of a hot water bottle.

House was a cast of the inside of a three storey Victorian terraced house in East London. The structure presented inhabited space in solid form, stripped bare of its cladding. House stood alone as a symbol of survival, as all the other houses in Grove Road had already been knocked down to make way for redevelopment.

Whiteread, awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 1993, makes use of a variety of materials in the production of her work. Her work has been linked to Egyptian sarcophagi and her working method compared to the making of death masks.

Whiteread's works often intimate that something has been lost, but sometimes they reveal the opposite -- sometimes the viewer discovers something they always knew existed but could not identify visually. Her sculptures investigate the relationship between matter and its corresponding negative space, between what we have imagined lost and what we have found.