Gallery 5: Matrix III consists of over 20 metal cages hanging from the ceiling, surrounding a central void the size of a typical bedroom, which Antony called “the space for dreaming”, a space we inhabit. Whether you stand or lie beneath it, or stand back and look through it, you were struck by the solidity and space flowing through it all at once. (Ciick the link below to see how it was made.)
Gallery 1: Slabworks is a room full of figures made of stacked pieces arranged in 90-degree angles from head to toe, a kind of “house of cards” which depict the precariousness of balanced structures. The different poses projected a variety of emotional expressions: The desire to contemplate and relax, or curl up into a ball with fear, mourning, pain or sadness.
Gallery 3: Clearing VII, made of several kilometres of metal rods, is reminiscent of a doodle, a three-dimensional drawing. Antony explains: This installation acts as a kind of vector field, encouraging the viewer to move through its structure, and in so doing, disrupts the authority of a single-point perspective, necessitating, instead, a constant renegotiation of the visual field.
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Gallery 8: Lost Horizon is filled with human forms defying gravity, projecting at right angles from each other, making us wonder which way is up. Anthony says of the exhibition: I want this exhibition to encourage present, first-hand experience. It will concentrate on the body in space: firstly, the viewer's body, through a series of proprioceptive environments that enhance awareness, alertness and sensorial space, and secondly in the presentation of discrete objects that evoke what it feels like to inhabit a human body.
Photos courtesy of Antony Gormley