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Monday 18 December 2023

Artlyst: Antony Gormley Explores Self Awareness White Cube Bermondsey

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is of Body Politic: Antony Gormley at White Cube Bermondsey:

"Antony Gormley has spent his career investigating the relationship of the human body to space. Through his fertile imagination, this has proved to be a seam that he can continuously mine, whether using his own body or those of others, in order to explore questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. His latest exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey uncovers new ways to probe these fundamental issues.

“The responsibility of the art of our time is to reflect on and provide instruments for examination and self-awareness” Antony Gormley

He is doing so at a time when human beings are predominantly urban dwellers in industrially manufactured habitats, and when, Teresa Kittler writes, there is a broad “cultural acceptance of the rights of money, goods, ideas and tourists to travel – a phenomenon accelerated by new technologies” at the same time as national governments are controlling or denying that same right to migrants. In this exhibition, Gormley uses the industrial processes that produce clay blocks, concrete, iron and steel to create works that examine the dynamic tension between our need for refuge and our need to roam."

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