Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
a series of public poster sites display intricate line drawings of statues being toppled
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled, headless statue and a uniformed person looking over it
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a statue being toppled
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a stone statue with the faces blanked out
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a group of people pointing rifles at a statue
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a headless statue
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a statue in flames and toppling
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of two figures toppling a statue
a billboard displays an intricate pencil drawing of a toppled statue

The Common Guild

Across multiple outdoor sites throughout Glasgow, The Common Guild presented Sam Durant’s Iconoclasm – a series of drawings depicting acts of destruction enacted upon public statues and monuments. Based on images gleaned from various historical and contemporary sources, including newspapers and television reports, Durant’s graphite drawings render moments of intense disruption and call on current debates about how we relate to symbols in public space.

Presented in Glasgow as large-scale billboards and street posters, the fourteen original graphite drawings use a fugitive, labour-intensive form to document fleeting yet significant moments of historical change, commemorating the action. Their appearance in various sites around the city drew attention to questions of representation on our streets: who gets to occupy them and why.

Curated by The Common Guild
Further details about the project can be found here

 

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