8 visual art highlights from Glasgow International

Here we bring together further highlights from this year’s Glasgow International, taking in subjects such as parenthood, meaning, climate change and grief

Anya Paintsil

This Welsh Ghanaian artist utilises craft practices she learned as a child such as rug making and hand embroidery in order to create large-scale portraits. In The Delight Of Walking Alone, carvings, wood sculptures and masks all come into play as she interrogates the labour of working-class women.
Burns Street Studios, Friday 5–Sunday 21 June.

Aqsa Arif

Scottish Pakistani interdisciplinary artist Arif brings us Beneath The Ivory Is Molten Brown, a work that combines the moving image, installation and textile prints to find resonance between Greco-Roman and South Asian mythologies.
Street Level Photoworks, Friday 5–Sunday 21 June.

Bettina

Conceptual artist Bettina Grossman worked in New York’s Chelsea Hotel from 1972 until her death in 2021, and this debut UK exhibition, Finite Structures, takes in photography, film, animation, painting and textiles.
Cento, Friday 5–Sunday 21 June.

David Wojnarowicz

This solo exhibition by the late artist and activist features photography, writing, moving image and paintings made throughout the 1980s and early 1990s until his sad passing from AIDS-related illness. It marks the inaugural show at The Modern Institute’s Carlton Place gallery.
The Modern Institute, Friday 5 June–Friday 28 August.

Kate Cooper

In her immersive installation Screen Bodies, this Netherlands-based artist examines the intersections between parenthood, knowledge and technology, exploring how intimacy and imagination are often reshaped.
The Black Box, Kelvin Hall, Friday 5–Sunday 21 June.

Naeem Mohaiemen

London-born and Dhaka-raised, this artist is known for using film, photography, installation and essays to research South Asia’s postcolonial markers. For his exhibition here, Through A Mirror, Darkly, he takes us back to 1970 when US students protesting war and racism were met by brutal state-sanctioned violence. The piece explores how memorials can be a focal point for both individual and collective grief.
The Hunterian, Friday 5 June–Sunday 11 October.

Protect Me From What I Know

This group exhibition features the work of Jill Westwood, Sohrab Hura and Adam Lewis Jacob whose project is shaped by the fluidity of meaning and how images shift through time. As we all know by now, meaning is no longer a fixed concept and the works here blur authorship and intention.
David Dale Gallery, Friday 5–Sunday 21 June.

The Ocean’s Edge

Inspired by the environmentalist Rachel Carson, Glasgow-based Barbadian Scot Alberta Whittle joins Brazilian artists Letícia Ramos and Licida Vidal for a screening of their works. In conversation with Alice Sharp of Invisible Dust, the artists speak of how they weave together poetry, climate change and marine science.
Kelvin Hall Cinema, Friday 5 June.

Main picture: Naeem Mohaiemen.

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