Terrence Higgins Trust - 2023, Live Auction

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, and received an OBE in 1997 with a knighthood following in 2014. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003. 

About this work, the artist says: “Forms of reproduction in which the distinctions between one body becoming two, mitosis and two bodies becoming one and sexual intercourse become interchangeable has long been a preoccupation. I have explored it through drawing and sculpture for over three decades. These drawings start with an organic liquid that pools and, like an amoeba, evolves into binary form: I hope that familiar binaries like self/other, artist/model, creator/ created are made pliable, porous and questionable in this process of becoming and emergence.”