Martin Boyce Door Handle Portrait (LR), 2025

The work is from a new photographic series created specifically for the artist's exhibition at Esther Schipper, Paris in May 2025. Images of door handles from Boyce's own home in Glasgow are arranged as a diptych: the two photographs depict both sides of the same door, each showing a different handle. Mechanically connected yet never seen together, the handles form both a single entity and two distinct elements: one facing inward, the other outward. The door, from a house built around 1908, bears a century of human presence. The series contributes to a broader reflection on the uncanny: the familiar home becomes a stage for a diffuse strangeness, perceptible in everyday objects which, once isolated, reveal their symbolic power.