Continuing her investigation into the tension of presence and absence through the documenting of domestic interiors, Malakoff presents here a new body of photographs. Psychologically charged, the living spaces, often her own or found through family or friends, are almost entirely unaltered by the artist. At most, in setting up her shot, she will remove some of the everyday clutter to pare a room’s contents down to the existing objects and pieces of furniture. Entirely devoid of people, the photographs set up varying relationships between a room’s components (sofa to table, wallpaper to lamp, etc.), as well as different moods created by both natural and artificial lighting. As a result, the images beckon the viewer to visually traverse the spaces and decipher a narrative. Each fixture of the room is encoded with different associations for each person. From the definitive realities of these spaces stem a wide range of fictions created by that of the viewer.