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Galleria Continua is honoured to present a solo show by widely acclaimed British artist, Antony Gormley, in its Beijing space. For the artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition at Galleria Continua Beijing, the site-specific installation Host will flood the central spaces of the gallery to a depth of 23 centimetres. Approximately 95 cubic metres of clay from Beijing鈥檚 Changping district and seawater from the nearby Tianjin Coast will be mixed at a ratio of 50:50. The experience of the work is not only visual, but sensate: the viewer is invited to stand at one of the three thresholds leading into the space and to sense the relationship between the built world and un-inscribed nature. Host is one of the artist鈥檚 most potent environments for proprioception, allowing art to become an instrument through which the viewer becomes the viewed. Gormley describes Host as 鈥渢he site of becoming鈥�. He states, 鈥淭his is the elemental world, a primal soup brought within the frame of a museum as a changing painting that you can sense, as well as see. The point is to heal the division between inside and outside, and bring the elemental world into a cultural frame. Here is a materialised landscape not pictured, formulated or interpreted.鈥� In addition, a series of five sculptures in mild steel, collectively called Stations, will be exhibited together for the first time. These works, like many of the artist鈥檚 recent body sculptures, use the syntax of architecture to translate body mass into the equivalent of a high-rise tower. In much the same way as the skeleton of a building is composed of columns and floors, here the body is intersected by clear horizontal divisions and vertical pillars, which vary from 5 to 20 millimetres thick. Although architecture aims to produce a stable world, these works suggest vulnerability and potential instability.