Monuments for the Present

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining decorative elements, blue and white Eyo festival hats (Nigeria), golden domes from the cathedral in Kiev, and details from Renaissance Sculptures.

The image shows a collage made of paper cuttings combining parts of a photograph of the Shawlands cross and a star-shaped form made with colourful decorative elements.

The image shows a collage made of paper cuttings combining images of custard apple, pyramidal monuments, nigerian huts, stones and soil

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining a cactus tree, a leg of a woman wearing parachute pants, three Matakam huts that can be identified as cylindrical long pointy thatched roofs, a cat and meerkat.

The image shows a detail from a collage made of paper cuttings combining images of mangoes, cacti, islamic ornamental elements and plaster copies of eyes, noses, ears from Renaissance sculptures.

Artwork is displayed on tables and standing alone on a wooden floor.

Sculptures are displayed on a wooden table. In the background there is artwork displayed on the wall featuring written text.

Artwork featuring black and white type is displayed on a wall with blurred sculptures seen in the foreground.

Artwork featuring black and white type is displayed on a wall.

A cut out of a human form is displayed on a wooden floor.

Sculptures are displayed on a wooden table and the floor, with artwork featuring written text on a wall behind.

Dates and Opening times

Byres Community Hub
Wed 5 – Sun 23 June
Mon – Fri, 8am – 5pm
Sat 8 June, 11am – 3pm

Centre for Contemporary Art
Wed 5 – Sun 23 June
Tue – Sat, 11am – 6pm

Venue

Byres Community Hub
School of Health & Wellbeing
Clarice Pears Building
University of Glasgow
90 Byres Road
G12 8TB

Centre for Contemporary Art
350 Sauchiehall Street
G2 3JD

Billboards around the city
The billboards will be visible between 3-23 June at the following locations:

Glasgow Green Entrance/Charlotte Street

St Enoch/Maxwell Street

Kilmarnock Road (Shawlands)

Eglinton Street (TBC)

Participants

Paria Goodarzi, Mia Gubbay & Francesca Zappia with the Maryhill Integration Network Museum of Things Art Group

Presented by

Paria Goodarzi, Mia Gubbay and Francesca Zappia with Maryhill Integration Network Art Group Museum of Things

Supported by

Supported by Glasgow International, Maryhill Integration Network, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Byres Community Hub, See Me, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Refugee Festival Scotland, and JACK ARTS Scotland

Accessiblity

Good access: The venues have ramped or level access and/or lifts to access upper floors

Toilets: The venues have toilets available for visitors

Accessible Toilets: The venues have a wheelchair-accessible toilet

Gender Neutral: The venues have toilets not separated by gender or sex

Hearing Loop: The venues have a hearing loop available

Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments

Baby Change: The venues have baby change facilities

For additional access information, click here

The Maryhill Integration Museum of Things Art group include: Beauty Osayomwanbor Nosa, Inna Hordiiko, Mehri Abdi, Rezvan Faghani, Sara Abdelnasser, Shahid Mahmood, Sadaf Syeda, Tanisha Sarkar, Tara Gomary, Tomilola Owolabi, Valentina Vodolazska and Valentyna Dolottseva.

Monuments for the Present is an open-ended project that invites dialogue around diverse ideas of equality and public space. The works on display were co-created by participants from the Maryhill Integration Network Art Group with artist and heritage and art curators Paria Goodarzi, Mia Gubbay and Francesca Zappia. In recent years, public monuments in the UK have been the focus of debate and actions that have questioned dominant narratives of national identity that glorify violent imperialist extraction and white supremacy. The complex power struggles around these contested sites have made room for new forms of representation within the public realm.

Monuments for the Present has come together through collaborative dialogue and artistic creation that has unfolded over the past nine months through a series of participatory action research workshops. The exhibition presents works created with different media and techniques, such as videos, collages and monuments made with the soap. These forms disrupt values intrinsic to traditional Western European monuments, providing space to re-imagine them as platforms for the diverse voices that make up Glasgow's social fabric.

Launch Event
Common Ground Festival
5:30pm on Thu 20 June

Monuments for the Present participates in the launch of the Common Ground festival at the CCA.

Workshops
Monuments for the Present
As part of the Common Ground festival, Monuments for the Present hold a two-day workshop at CCA’s Creative Lab
Open to all, all ages welcome, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Fri 21 June
Session 1 11:00am - 12:30pm
Session 2 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Sat 22 June
Session 1 11:00am - 12:30pm
Session 2 2:00pm - 3:30pm