Shrouded in darkness yet dramatically lit from within by LED lights, Weera-it Ittiteerarak’s In Absence, Duality Remains (2024) is a wall-hung sculpture comprising two connected translucent resin doorknobs set against a mottled white marble tile. Shown recently in the group exhibition “History will say we were best friends” at Podium Gallery in Hong Kong, the Thai Chinese artist’s work is an exploration of connectivity and detachment that draws from their father’s final gesture of care—the replacement of a door lock. Transforming the cold silver knob from their childhood into its ethereal doppelgänger, the artist constructed a memento of affection and grief. As Ittiteerarak explains on their website, the connected knobs, resembling a small tunnel, symbolize “a bond that was both secure and distant, present and absent.”