Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul) brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and text that consider what happens when artistic production is shaped by pressures that are not always fully articulated. Rather than resolving the request placed upon them, the works in the exhibition absorb it, sometimes misinterpreting or even pushing against it. Curated by Brian Griffiths, the exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending his longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional.