Outer Spaces will support six artists from our network this June during GI, presenting a solo exhibition from Glasgow based artist Irineu Destourelles, Faint Light of the World with Contradictions, co-curated with Natalia Palombo; a special event Disrupting Spaces, Sharing Practice with Gianni Esporas, Olivia Priya Foster, and Amy Lawrence and production support for artists Luke Fowler and Lisette May Monroe. 

Earlier this year Outer Spaces worked with the Glasgow based artist and Many Studios, to provide production support for a commission as part of the redevelopment of the former Cumberland Street Station. Thirty-two Texts with Distress presents two new interlinked video works by Irineu Destourelles. Currently on display at the Gorbals Library, the works revisit personal memory - of being in public spaces in Glasgow and elsewhere - alongside reflections on how public spaces are represented in media. Together, these works invite audiences to reflect on what makes public spaces feel welcoming, fragile, or imperfect. 

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In addition to the presentation of new work by Destourelles, Outer Spaces will support five other artists from our network to engage with the festival. 

Disrupting Space: Sharing Practice brings together three artists within the Outer Spaces’ Glasgow studio network - Gianni Esporas, Olivia Priya Foster, and Amy Louise Lawrence - whose work collectively spans sculpture, installation, film, writing, performance, and choreography. Responding to Martinican writer Édouard Glissant’s concept of “trembling thinking” and its embrace of fluid, relational, and non-fixed perspectives, the event considers the buildings occupied by Outer Spaces in a “meanwhile” capacity, especially the Merchant City. Many of these buildings are usually inaccessible to the public and are now home to artists creating new work and projects. Esporas, Foster and Lawrence will share their practices, processes, and projects that are underway in these locations, reflecting on their relationships to space, identity, and history.

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Additionally, during Glasgow International 2026 Outer Spaces are supporting two projects through our production support strand: Lisette May Monroe’s solo exhibition Hard Lines and Luke Fowler’s new film A Sensation Never Yet Known presented at Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound (GLOSS).

Hard Lines is an autobiographical installation that uses sentimentality, nostalgia and revenge to navigate the aftermath of an abandoned relationship, while questioning what it means to inhabit a body stigmatised by the overhanging spectres of class, disability and menopause. Where do long, sleepless nights lie within the mire of the late thirties? Where do heartache and longing reside amid the frenzy of shame? When the body begins to give up the ghost, as it has threatened to do since birth - particularly now in its most dire of hours, how does this haunting not become consuming? In her autobiography, Hilary Mantel writes, “I began this writing in an attempt to seize copyright in myself.” 'Hard Lines' is an exercise in doing the same, drawing an edge around experience and representing it as fact.

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A Sensation Never Yet Known is a new film work by Luke Fowler exploring the ongoing history of electronic music in Scotland. Fowler’s film combines footage of recent workshops led by Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound (GLOSS) with explorations of the practice of UK composer Janet Beat, an electronic and electro-acoustic music pioneer.

In material sourced from an interview with Fowler, Janet Beat vividly recalls her earliest memories of sound and her experiences of being doubly marginalised as a woman musician in a then-male-dominated field and a composer of electronic music at a time when it was viewed with suspicion by the musical establishment, including the Musicians’ Union. Extending Fowler’s long-standing interest in how cultural and political figures of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered, A Sensation Never Yet Known also reflects his own practice as a musician and an artist-filmmaker. Curated by Dominic Paterson, the film will be presented during GI at GLOSS.

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