Irineu Destourelles

Faint Light of the World with Contradictions

A split colour image. On the left is black, on the right is a cream/yellow.

A marine-blue textured rectangualr block with darker text. The text describes children danding on dusty ground surrouneded by fire while outside forces affect thier bodies.

A mustard-green rectangular block of flat colour with slightly darker text. The folktale like text describes the emotional and psychological toll on a chief after killing one of the king's lieutenants.

A cobalt blue rectangular block of colour speckled with white flecks. Dark blue text overlays the surface, written in the style of a folktale describing a king argueing with another man.

Dates and Opening times

Fri 5 – Sun 21 Jun

Open Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm

Venue

The Pentagon Centre, 36‑38 Washington Street, Glasgow, G3 8AZ

Participants

Irineu Destourelles

Presented by

Natalia Palombo & Outer Spaces

Supported by

Outer Spaces. Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund.

Accessiblity

Level Access, Step Free: The Venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors, but these are not accessible.

Refreshments: There is a cafe or somewhere you can purchase refreshments.

In a newly commissioned installation, Glasgow-based artist Irineu Destourelles explores how conflicting historical narratives are embodied within postcolonial, multilingual, and diasporic identities. Drawing on Irineu’s experience of Creoleness, migration, and diaspora, the work interprets the tensions between colonialist and anti-colonial ideologies in a sensory, spatial encounter.

Titled Faint Light of the World with Contradictions, the installation combines a multi-channel sound composition with monochromatic projections. Film stock sound effects intertwine with fragments of colonialist and anti-colonialist films from African and Western traditions, exploring how ideology is carried not only through narrative but shared cinematic language.

Rather than offering resolution, the work sustains contradiction, inviting audiences to inhabit a space of uneasy familiarity where complicity and resistance coexist. Through sound and light, the installation probes contemporary identity as a layered and unresolved historical condition, constricted by colonialist narratives that continue to resonate in the present.