Edited by Honey Luard & Rosalind Horne
Designed by Amy Preston & Amelie Bonhomme
Text by Rebecca Comay

Printed by MM Artbook printing & repro, Luxembourg
308 x 297 mm, hardback
128 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-910844-14-4
Published by White Cube, 2016

Signed by the artist

FIT was published to mark Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London (September – November 2016), a presentation stimulating physiological encounters by configuring the gallery space into a sequence of 15 chambers. Including several bodies of work that modelled the human form in diverse scale, such as the 12-metre-long Passage (2016), the exhibition continued Gormley’s interrogation of the human body and architectural space evoking enigmatic states of withdrawal and desolation. Varied materials including lead, iron, concrete and steel configured equally diverse sculptural installations, each reflecting on the consequences of displacement in the construction of built space.

Illustrating the works in the exhibition, the monograph documents Gormley’s use of both diminutive and epic scales, exploring mass, volume, line and plane. Generous full-bleed imagery reproduces the artist’s dynamic work that dramatically shifts in scope. Collectively, the works presented in this monograph invite the reader to consider how subjective experience responds to, and is directly affected by, the built environment.

The publication features an essay by Rebecca Comay who explores Gormley’s practice through an indexical list of observations and analyses, a form which parallels the meticulous nature of the artist’s work. Through both text and image, FIT offers a substantial reading of the artist’s distinctive mapping of individual experience into forms that are highly engineered and acutely organised.

Rebecca Comay is a Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School/EGS and a Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she also directs the Program in Literary Studies. She is an associate member of both the German Department and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on modern European philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature and contemporary art.