on a sunday out to the english seaside we happened to see Antony Gormley’s Critical Mass sculpture installation on the roof of the modernist De La Warr Pavilion. set under the sky, against the blue sea it was quite impressive - though the feeling of discomfort and unease that was generated through the juxtaposition of living humans moving through the heavy, motionless body forms made me not want to linger around them but instead return to the ground and the water.
‘When applied to social issues, Critical Mass usually means the necessary level of density within a collective that allows for something transformative to happen…. There is also reference to the fact that most of us in the western world co-exist within carefully constructed urban matrices where the spaces between us are as significant as the walls that contain us.’
http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=1188
