These Rachel Whiteread postcards are like a jpg jumpscare. I’ve never seen one IRL, but I have to think they’re immediately legible as hole punched objects. When rephotographed, though, the lighting and shadows somehow short circuit my brain.
The first/only/other ones I’d seen were in 2019, in a Notre Dame fundraising show at Gagosian Paris. And the caption identifying them as hole punches had to drag me across the line. 2019 was also when the 2005 postcard up top was in an artist postcards show at the British Museum, so a big year for Whiteread postcards.
The world exists to be put on a postcard, 2019 [britishmuseum]