Produced for the Angel Auction as part of PramDepot’s ‘Spotlight on Asylum’ ⎯ an event aimed to raise awareness of the asylum process and the impact on women and children. You could attempt to ascribe figurative meaning to the box flaps, or extrapolate a sense of angelic purity about its whitewashed facade, but there’s something striking in its smudged, almost finger-marked visuals, yellow splatters on grey. Whiteread again finds beauty in the ordinary, only this time she has all but eliminated the negative space and we are left with only that which really exists. At the work’s centre is the eponymous halo, positioned over a bright yellow egg yolk. It can hardly be described as anything but, convex meniscus shining wetly as it hovers like some sort of medieval saint. It seems to convey something more hopeful than the flattened, smudged box; the yolk lies exposed and vulnerable, but somehow protected by its halo, an emblem, perhaps, of new life.