In light of the dramatic shifts in world politics over the last few years, Martin Boyce felt compelled to revisit his 1999 work 'Chair (Noir)', which was designed with an adjustable backrest that could extend to meet the underside of a door, creating a wedge. In contrast to the utopian project of modernism, the chair is a device for inculcating and amplifying paranoia, a mental state that pervades the current political conditions of contested borders, mass migration, and fear-based isolationist ideologies. The drawing LD / CH01 reinforces the idea that the chair is a fabricated device rather than an innocent object whose new use has been improvised. We can see from the drawing that the chair has been designed with an adjustable backrest that allows it to perform in this way. Its protective nature or paranoid tendencies are built in rather than adopted. Image: Martin Boyce, 'LD / CH01', 2022 #MartinBoyce #TanyaBonakdarGallery #losangeles