Drift Opens at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Antony Gormley is one of five international artists commissioned to make new work for the Moshe Safdie-designed Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Drift is a light weight structure that exists on the cusp between a drawing and a thing. It is conceived of as a three-dimensional drawing in space derived through generative evolution. It has adequate mass to be called an object but expresses enough of a field function to be thought of as a place. Measuring 39.6 × 14.6 × 23 metres, Drift is composed of 16,138 elements of 12.7mm square stainless steel and 8,327 32mm diameter balls formed into packed polyhedra that follow bubble matrix geometry.
Photograph: Drift, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Installation view.