The youngest of seven children born in Hampstead, London, Antony Gormley began his career with a focus on the human body. He made plaster molds of his own body and then coated them with lead. He explained it as “an attempt to materialize the place at the other side of appearance where we all live.” These days, Gormley is focused on the rapidly increasing numbers of people in cities. Over half of the world’s population lives in an “urban matrix,” and Gormley aims to represent that with the sculptures on view at White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac. The two-part exhibition is his first in the city of Seoul and coincides with Frieze Seoul 2025. —Henry McGrath

White Cube, Seoul.