Edited and co-ordinated by Michael Green, Honey Luard, Polly Robinson Gaer and Hannah Kim Translation by Hayun Kim Designed by (Studio) Mathias Clottu
Text by Noam Andrews
Printed by Verona Libri, Italy 310 x 225 mm, hardback 132 pages, 70 colour and 7 black-and-white illustrations ISBN 978-1-910844-81-6 (White Cube) ISBN 979-11-983724-1-3 (Thaddaeus Ropac) Published by White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac, October 2025
Inextricable is published to mark Antony Gormley’s two-part exhibition of the same name at White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul (September – October 2025), which used sculpture to examine the freedoms and constraints shaped by the built environment and their impact on the body. Designed by Studio Mathias Clottu, the catalogue documents the exhibition through extensive installation photography, situating Gormley’s sculpture both within the urban fabric of Seoul and the distinctive architectures of the two galleries.
An essay by architect and historian Noam Andrews places Gormley’s work in the cultural and religious history of geometry, from Pythagoras and Plato to Christian iconography of the Crucifixion. Understanding geometry as both a spatial and spiritual force, Andrews suggests that Gormley’s geometric reconfigurations of the body form ‘a connective tissue that binds the body to context and context to cosmos’.
Noam Andrews is an architect, historian of science and director of Studio Partisan in Brussels. His book, The Polyhedrists, was published by MIT Press in 2022. He is a visiting scholar at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.