Another Place

The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation. Standing beside these figures, watching them watching time pass, waiting for nothing in particular, creates a profound sense of loneliness and vulnerability.
According to Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.