In 1970, the businessman and art patron John de Menil sent a letter to the German archaeologist Dr. Werner Fuchs. He was wondering about the identity of a second-century Roman male torso that was in his personal collection. Nearly 50 years later, while roaming through her father’s archives, the British painter Francesca Fuchs discovered a black-and-white photograph of the marble sculpture. Her deep interest in memory compelled her to keep digging, eventually finding Menil’s unanswered letter. “I make my work thinking about the significance of objects,” says the artist, “making paintings of paintings, and paintings of objects I live with and love, trying to up-end hierarchies from within the intimacies of domestic space.” This exhibition is her response to Menil. —Jeanne Malle