Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris presents In Habit, an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by Antony Gormley centred around a space activating installation which responds to the architecture of the Marais gallery. A square aluminium tube snakes in 90-degree turns throughout the gallery, activating the space, heightening awareness of the way we move about in our constructed habitat, and defining a zone of reflexivity where visitors can interact.
To accompany this large-scale work, Gormley presents a series of cast-iron sculptures called Liners. These new works are made up of multiple intersecting lines that map out the interior volume of the human body, recalling the routes on the London Tube map. Gormley considers the Liners ‘diagnostic instruments’ that attempt to re-locate us in our original habitat – our body.