Lisette May Monroe, 'Neighbours', Collage (detail), 2022

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.

Lisette May Monroe is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. She is the director of Rosies Disobedient Press alongside Adrien Howard. Lisette is also an Art Critic, reviewing exhibitions and interviewing artists for The Guardian, Frieze, Plaster, TANK and Elephant.

This exhibition is supported by Creative Scotland Open Fund with production support for new work supported by Outer Spaces.

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