 turned the gallery’s architecture into a psychic and physiological testing ground. Gormley presented twelve new works.

 was based on an architectural language where the cube functions as the basic element. Dispersed tactically throughout the gallery spaces as a series of alternating singular and paired interventions, the sculptures invited circumnavigation and were intended as catalysts for a choreography of movement.

The most comprehensive work in the exhibition was 

, a site-specific sculpture made from black 6 mm steel bar on a 200 mm grid re-enforcing bar. The scale was defined by the dimensions of the room. At its centre was a body-scaled void, 180 × 60 × 40 cm, created by the eleven interwoven volumes that colonised each other’s space. The work applied a cross-hatching technique, a graphic device used to deal with space, light and shade, here used structurally to capture space itself. This created an optical effect, where foreground and background were constantly shifting and confusing a sense of orientation and stability in the room.

Galleri Andersson/Sandström

, 2014, 5 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 360 × 395 × 355 cm. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

, 2014, 4 mm Corten steel, 191.4 × 42 × 33.4 cm. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

, 2013 (foreground), 4 mm Corten steel, 71.3 × 78.5 × 204.5 cm and 

, 2013 (foreground), 4 mm Corten steel, 71.3 × 78.5 × 204.5 cm. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

, 2014. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

, 2014 (foreground), 6 mm square section mild steel bar, one horizontal and one vertical dissecting line, dimensions variable and 

, 2014 (background), 3 mm square section stainless steel bar, 191.5 × 56 × 50 cm.

, 2014, 3 mm square section stainless steel bar, 191.5 × 56 × 50 cm. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

, 2014 (foreground), 6 mm square section mild steel bar, one horizontal and one vertical dissecting line, dimensions variable and

, 2014 (background), 4 mm Corten steel and air, 216.4 × 73.7 × 72.5 cm.

, 2013, 4 mm Corten steel and air, 71.3 × 78.5 × 204.5 cm and 

, 2014 (background), 4 mm Corten steel and air 216.4 × 73.7 × 72.5 cm. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

Installation view. Photograph by Jean-Baptiste Béranger.

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