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Wed 09 Sep 2006Rooms full of expectation Visual Arts: The buildings in Candida Höfer's photographs are haunted by their occupants, though they are rarely occupied as such. Höfer photographs interior public spaces, locations such as offices, lecture theatres, libraries, archives, reception rooms, store rooms, foyers, museums, galleries, restaurants and canteens, at times when there is no-one there.Yet, although they are deserted, the rooms, with their various kinds of paraphernalia, seem poised and ready for human intervention, charged with energy of some kind. It is as though the texts in the books densely packed on library shelves are like the charge in a battery.