Heroes Not Zombies

Blind Light1, originally uploaded by bobsee.

I went to the Hayward Gallery in London last week to see Antony Gormley‘s Blind Light Exhibition. I’ve always been enormously impressed with his work, ever since I first saw The Field in Inverleith House in the middle of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
This is a fabulous exibition. It really makes you experience the issues of separateness, of how we all live all lives inside our bodies and how we connect from there to the outside world, how we fit and how we change the world we live in.
The exhibition starts as you walk to the Hayward which is on the South Bank. On the buildings far and near you begin to become aware of standing figures. These are all casts of Antony Gormley’s body. The more you see of them the more you see of them! Echoing each other into the distance, some near and looming large, some tiny and in the distance, and always, always they make you appreciate the scale of the urban landscape and the scale of a single person.
Stunning. Come and see.