Fab art

My knowledge of art isn't great so I approach it from the point of view:  does it provoke a response from me, do I like it or do I appreciate it?.
Antony Gormley's Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery is a yes, yes and yes. Why? Because it is imaginative, clever and I could appreciate the work, the thought and craft that had gone into it. And it certainly provoked a response.

Blind Light by Antony Gormley. Photograph by Stephen White

The title piece Blind Light is a perspex box filled with dense fog. You only have to go inside a few feet to lose sight of everything around you and all perspective. Sound is muffled and the density of the air feels slightly suffocating. It is extremely disorientating and had the same physical effect as heights have on me. I only stayed in for a minute both times and didn't stray far from the entrance as the fear of not finding my way out was too strong. If I'd gone in with someone I may have been a bit braver.
Gormley takes the body as the central theme and has taken many casts of his own body. Indeed he must have spent a rather strange amount of time covered in cling film...
One room exhibits a piece called Allotment II which is a series of 300 concrete boxes each modeled on a the same group of measurements taken from 300

Picture of Allotment II exhibited in Malmoa, picture from antonygormley.com

volunteers of all ages. There is a box for the body which has a hole for the genitals and another for the anus and a smaller box for the head with a hole for the mouth and two holes for the ears.
There were a lot of kids at the exhibition. I'm not sure what they take from it but I saw two boys running around Allotment II trying to find the concrete boxes that best matched their size, getting right up close to make sure all the holes matched.
Then there was Mother's Pride. Quite literally a wall of slices of Mother's Pride bread  with the shape of a human, laying in an almost foetal position, 'bitten' out of the middle.
There are lots of pictures and details about his work at his excellent website

Mother's Pride by Antony Gormley, picture from antonygormley.com