Jasleen Kaur has always been fascinated with the river that flows through her home city.<\/p>\n
So when she was commissioned to make a public artwork for the Glasgow 2026 Festival, which runs alongside the Commonwealth Games, she turned to the Clyde for inspiration.<\/p>\n
“My whole relationship to the city of Glasgow revolves around that, as it does for anybody whose families moved here in the 50s and 60s.<\/p>\n
“All of our lives are totally shaped by that history.”<\/p>\n
Her questions about the river’s connections to trade, industry and empire as well as its key role in migration – which brought previous generations of her own family to the shipyards of Govan – have been worked into eight weathervane-like sculptures entitled Superstructure.<\/p>\n
Each steel pole is topped by a gold aluminium phrase which turns in the wind, questioning ideas of home, nationality and ownership.<\/p>\n
“I was here b4 you” reads one sign while “This should be public” swings between Scottish Enterprise’s HQ and the new Barclays Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jasleen Kaur has always been fascinated with the river that flows through her home city. So when she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}