ANTONY GORMLEY

‘Blanket Drawing VI (1983) is a record of the place a body once was: a place between dreaming and burial. It holds forensic evidence. Here is an outline of a sleeping body whose head has escaped the frame, the genitals and the hands knot together. Is this a body floating with its head above water, but also, perhaps, catatonic?’

From Antony Gormley and Jon Wood In Conversation, September 2021