Seven Seasons of the Spirit. 4. Coming back home 2015

Gian Maria Tosatti made this photograph, it seems, to record something between a moment and a place. Look at the dark, mottled texture of the walls, almost like a fresco, and how the light catches the roughness. Then there’s this, let's call it, ‘armoire’, standing guard. The wood's deep color is a contrast, but the glass seems to let in some hazy light, or maybe it’s reflecting something we can’t see. It's like the whole picture is about surfaces and what they hide, or what they show by not showing. I keep thinking about that wall – the way it’s worked, built up, then worn down again. It's like the artist let the process of making be visible, which is always a kind of honest reveal. There's something of Anselm Kiefer in it; that same weight of history and memory made material. Art's like that, layers of conversation and echoes.