Gulabi Gallery: Hard Lines - Lisette May Monroe

The last couple of weeks have flown by, and so many of you came down to the new Gulabi Gallery to experience Hard Lines by Lisette May Monroe as part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art.

Hard Lines is an autobiographical installation that uses sentimentality, nostalgia and revenge to navigate the aftermath of an abandoned relationship, while questioning what it means to inhabit a body stigmatised by the overhanging spectres of class, disability and menopause.

Where do long, sleepless nights lie within the mire of the late thirties? Where do heartache and longing reside amid the frenzy of shame? When the body begins to give up the ghost, as it has threatened to do since birth - particularly now in it’s most dire of hours - how does this haunting not become consuming?

In her autobiography, Hilary Mantel writes, “I began this writing in an attempt to seize copyright in myself.” This work is an exercise in doing the same: drawing an edge around experience and representing it as fact.

Hard Lines ends this Sunday (21st June), so this is your last chance to come down.

Here’s a selection of photos we took throughout the exhibition.