Viewing Antony Gormley’s search for inner peace

Early January is your chance to catch the best of the autumn shows before they close. Among those not to miss is Antony Gormley’s Body Politic at White Cube Bermondsey. Visitors have to navigate their way through a cast of concrete, clay and metal figures that populate the galleries, evoking a sense of sanctuary and control, freedom and discipline.

In the concrete figures that make up Retreat – each made to the scale of the artist’s body – small, square orifices allow you to peer into the void within. As Gormley puts it, “The only place where we can find true freedom is within the infinite darkness of the body available to us once the body is still.” It seems like a good motto for the year ahead. Let’s all look for inner peace and freedom this year…