For her contribution to Cure3, Tilson has used her cube to house a flight of stairs, Fondamenta Gherardini from her beloved Venice. There is something so powerful about a simple ageless staircase being housed within a ‘museum like’ vitrine. These are the steps that you find all over city; the conduit between all buildings and the canal system, the umbilical cord of the city. However because the subject is Venice, there is an underlining question about the preservation of the piece: how long can this lifeline survive, is it already an antique, can we find a solution to saving Venice - just as we ask the same question about finding a cure for Parkinson’s.