Fra Angelico/Opus Operantis
Flowers Gallery, London

Sometimes, when alone in the house at night, I’ve gone back into a room after turning out the light and had the strange feeling that I was invading its privacy. Domestic spaces have a life of their own. That’s what makes photographs of bombed cities so shocking: pictures of houses with their exterior walls stripped away to expose their once private interiors can be more affecting than photographs of corpses.

Robert Polidori has photographed interiors abandoned after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the civil war in Beirut and Hurricane Katrina. He sees rooms as containers for memory, fascinated by “the notion of habitat and how inhabitants place certain objects on the walls which exteriorise their personality”.