Still Life (with steam), 2020 is a part of Mark Dean’s The Spiritual Exercises - an online exhibition of works mediating memory and longing via the parameters of the present. Over 70 artists responded to an open call, prompted by the following texts:
‘When I was ill recently (with symptoms of the novel coronavirus) I found myself travelling in my mind to places in my past. The memories were vivid, and sustained. It was a bit like they say happens before you die; your life flashing before you, but in this case it was more like slow motion. And of course I wasn’t dying, thank God, although I wasn’t so sure about that at the time…