Antony Gormley: ‘Politics and economics have failed us – which is why artwork is so necessary’

This present includes “most likely probably the most clearly political work” he’s ever made. We’re dwelling, he says, “in a really excessive second,” defensively closing ourselves off. “All of these guarantees from the mid Nineties, once we thought that, by way of the online, we have been going to ultimately grow to be extra united in making a greater and extra equitable future, appears to have disappeared and nationalism, identification politics, and the rise of dictatorship have all occurred on the similar time.”