Featuring 10 engraved mirrored panels mounted as a fractured mosaic on the car park wall, FLOURISHED uses a series of fragmented and cryptic notes to pose the question: ‘what does it mean to be remembered?’

The work is inspired by the ancient Greek poet, Sappho, considered one of the greatest lyric poets. Having written 10,000 lines of poetry in her lifetime, only 650 survive today and nearly all interpretations of her work have since been coloured by speculations on her sexuality and muddled by a long history of imitations, translations and alterations.

Adopting these tensions within a contemporary context, FLOURISHED speaks to the pliable and enduring notion of memory. It is an attempt to write fragments of a surviving poem as part of an imaginary legacy, presenting the cycle of what it means to be remembered, and what is lost.

Sophie Collins (b. 1989) lives and works in Glasgow.

Sam Riviere (b. 1981, Norwich) lives and works in Edinburgh.