Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does casting the interior of a room produce something a sculpture of a room could not?
Hints
- Ask what the resulting object is made of, in terms of the original space.
- The solid occupies exactly what was empty.
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C. It is a positive of an absence: a space you could have occupied, made solid and therefore impossible to enter
Why
Because the solid occupies exactly what was empty. The result is a positive of an absence — a volume you could have stood in, made impossible to enter — and the body is present in the work precisely as the thing that can no longer occupy it. No depiction produces that relation.
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