‘Resilient Chandelier’ Sooun Kim, Outer Spaces Bank Commissions

Outer Spaces presents a bold programme of newly commissioned works by artists Sooun Kim, Greer Pester, and Jamie Fitzpatrick. Selected from the Outer Spaces network of studio holders, this is a unique opportunity for the artists to make new, ambitious work in response to one of our most historic spaces.

Responding to the former Clydesdale banking hall at 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow, these works explore the building’s symbolic relationship to power, stability, and prosperity—qualities embedded in the fabric of this iconic Victorian structure. At the same time, the artists engage with the building’s current, transitory state, where past and present converge.

The works will be revealed to the public through a series of pop-up events throughout the spring of 2025, offering a dynamic exploration of the site’s rich history and its shifting role in the present.

Sooun Kim, a multidisciplinary artist and Korean immigrant in Scotland, explores cultural hybridity, displacement, and post-colonial memory. His forthcoming commission, Resilient Chandelier, will reimagine a chandelier as a spectral symbol of resilience, intertwining history, mythology, and personal migration. Through immersive 3D animation, the work will challenge oppressive power structures, revealing how identity is reshaped through ongoing adaptation, transformation, and resilience. The chandelier drifts cultural landscapes across diverse times and spaces, seeking to absorb and reflect the ever-fluid forces of identity.

Sooun Kim’s Echoes, 2023 will be shown alongside the newly commissioned work.