Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
Dates and Opening times
Fri 5 - Sun 21 Jun,

Wed - Sun, 10am - 5pm
Venue

Corner Block, The Briggait, 50 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ

Participants
Renèe Helèna Browne
Presented by

Renèe Helèna Browne

Supported by

Creative Scotland, WASPS, and the Arts Council of Ireland. 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

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Flat, 2026, is a new moving-image installation by Renèe Helèna Browne that unfolds within the shifting conditions of the so-called “mica scandal” in Donegal, Ireland, where thousands of homes were discovered to have defective concrete blocks.

The work traces a period of transition wherein one dwelling is slowly relinquished as another takes form, shaped through repetitive acts of making and unmaking. Attending to gestures of labour, care, and adaptation, the film considers how knowledge circulates outside formal structures, carried instead through bodies, materials, and shared routines. Rooted in a rural environment where weather, animals, and tools inform daily rhythms, the installation reflects on how lives are reorganised through acts of repair and endurance. Flat offers a close study of resilience within conditions of structural change.