Coming soon: Body Buildings, published by Skira, 2025

Published on the occasion of Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition at Galleria Continua in Beijing, Body Buildings interrogates our species’ relationship to the built environment, an increasingly high-rise world we rarely escape.

This publication illustrates the work in the exhibition through extensive photography, guiding readers from Gormley’s new installation Resting Place II (2024) to a series of sculptures investigating the relation of body to building and finally to a group of drawings published here for the first time. The book also features new scholarship from Hou Hanru and Stephen Greenblatt who trace the development of this new body of work as well as Gormley’s 30-year engagement with China and the surrounding region. A photo essay by the artist shows a series of never-before-seen archival photographs of his first research trip to China in 1995, which took him from the Forbidden City in Beijing to the Terracotta Army in Xi’an.