Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are. It is supposed to protect you from the weather, from darkness, from uncertainty. BLIND LIGHT undermines all of that. You enter this interior space that is the equivalent of being on top of a mountain or at the bottom of the sea. It is very important for me that inside it you find the outside. Also you become the immersed figure in an endless ground, literally the subject of the work.

Lovely and reflection pressuring installation by Anthony Gormley. When he created the Blind Light in 2007, that tension between the individual and the crowd—and between self-awareness and self-erasure—was surely on his mind. For the installation, he filled a brightly illuminated glass room with mist and invited viewers to enter into it. Commissioned as part of his exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, for which he also placed thirty lifesize casts of his body on the rooftops of buildings and on nearby Waterloo Bridge, it expanded his ongoing formal exploration of the body through sculpture into something more spontaneous.

How to Lose Yourself in Antony Gormley’s Blind Light