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 an 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 is on exhibit at the Southbank Centre in London, May 17 through August 19. 2007
(To watch a video of the installation, click on the link)
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