Saturday, February 28, 2009

Inside It You Find the Outside

“Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are. It is supposed to protect you from the weather, from darkness, from uncertainty. Blind Light undermines all of that. You enter this interior space that is the equivalent of being on top of a mountain or at the bottom of the sea. It is very important for me that inside it you find the outside. Also you become the immersed figure in an endless ground, literally the subject of the work.”

~ Antony Gormley

Blind Light

Antony Gormley, Blind Light, 2007
Fluorescent light, toughened low iron glass,
ultrasonic humidifiers, aluminium, water
© Courtesy of the artist and Jay Jopling / White Cube
Photo Stephen White