Emil Sands first saw Doryphoros, Polykleitos's fifth-century BCE sculpture of the "ideal man," during one of his childhood trips to the British Museum with his grandfather. "I remember standing in front of this body, this fucking perfect body-an unattainable body for anyone-and feeling really like I understood it," Sands told me during a recent visit to his New York studio.
Image: Portrait of Emil Sands by Giulia Fassina for Artsy, 2025
November 3 2025
