Mohammed Sami
Still Alive
2022
Digital pigment and silkscreen print on paper
Edition of 40, signed and numbered
Launch price (unframed) £450 including VAT
Member's price: £405
'Still Alive' is the artist's repeated answer to those who ask him ''how are you?'', since leaving his homeland, Iraq, in 2007. This stock response is often uncomfortable, the sentence evoking both trauma and seemingly celebrating the act of living. Sami's edition relates to a series of paintings of the same name - Still Alive aims to pun the genre of Still Life. In addition, Sami is interested in the contrast between the plants and the unidentified orange tube of pills, as a metaphor for life and death.
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