Jasleen Kaur has always been fascinated with the river that flows through her home city.
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.
“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.
“All of our lives are totally shaped by that history.”
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.
Each steel pole is topped by a gold aluminium phrase which turns in the wind, questioning ideas of home, nationality and ownership.
“I was here b4 you” reads one sign while “This should be public” swings between Scottish Enterprise’s HQ and the new Barclays Bank.