Laura Gascoigne

Surreal, pacy and fun: Christian Marclay’s Doors, at White Cube, reviewed

Plus: the funny, beautifully fragile work of Hendrickje Schimmel

Still from 'Doors', 2022, by Christian Marclay. Image: © Christian Marclay. Courtesy: White Cube  
issue 16 September 2023

Sliding doors may change your life, but there’s no mystery in their transparency. A hinged wooden door is another matter; you’re never quite sure what’s behind it.

Christian Marclay has a thing about doors; not an obsession, he insists, just a general interest ‘in things we don’t pay much attention to’.

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