All We Imagine as Light. The City from Where No News Can Come 2016

This piece, "All We Imagine as Light. The City from Where No News Can Come", is by Nalini Malani, and it's like a visual diary, layered with personal and historical moments. Malani's approach to layering text and images reminds me of my own painting process, where I build up surfaces, letting different layers peek through. Look at the way the colours interact, the muted tones creating a sense of memory and history. You can almost feel the artist's hand at work. The texture in this piece is really interesting. The overlaid text and different images creates a sense of density and depth. Notice the central image of the figures being carried, how this area has a different, softer feel than the busyness surrounding it. The layering creates a kind of emotional weight. Like a conversation across time. It makes me think of other artists who grapple with memory and history in their work, like Gerhard Richter, but with a distinctly personal and poetic voice. Malani reminds us that art is about embracing ambiguity, and acknowledging that there's always more than one way to see things.