TY - ADVS
T1 - Heal Walls
T2 - Scott Myles
A2 - Myles, Scott
N1 - Type of Output:
International solo exhibition at Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Research context: (background information on the output)
Mixed media solo exhibition of 9 new artworks and a unique artists book
Research content: (300 words on originality, rigour and significance)
Scott Myles’s studio door has become an important emblem in his work over the past year, one that condenses his key concerns and locates them at precisely the threshold through which he enters the space in which his art is conceived and made, and across which his work leaves that space and enters the world. The door was pictured in one of the new works at Rat Hole Gallery and provided the proportions of all the wall-based works shown, at varying scales from 1:1 down. Beyond such direct references, the negotiations the studio door emblematises between worldly realities and the more personal, autonomous language of his art can be seen throughout the works in Myles’s exhibition. For example, a subtle gesture is made visible in two new works included in ‘Heal Walls’. In 2015, in the course of producing a series of artworks related to the American architectural practice SITE, Myles employed a company that offers digital imaging and manipulation services. Color Experts International has its headquarters in the American state of Virginia, but its production is outsourced to Dhaka in Bangladesh. By pure coincidence, Myles had recently visited both these locations in the course of pursuing different artistic projects of his own. Two new artworks depict these contrasting sites through the reproduction of images showing, respectively, the dismantling of a hotel room Myles designed for Lira Hotel in Turin, and an image of a table and chairs taken in Dhaka the same year. Each of these pictures has been combined with another image of a large, somewhat outlandish residential building. This house is in fact a digital rendering commissioned by Myles from the outsourced Bangladeshi imaging technicians. It conforms to their design rather than any instructions from the artist, except that at Myles’s request it has been imagined and imaged as if it were to stand next door to the real Virginian home that serves as their employer’s headquarters. The different ways information, capital, labour and actual human migrants might cross various thresholds today are tacitly figured in these chimerical images of a non-existent American ‘dream home.’ Such intimations of how economic relations pervade everyday life and its spaces can be seen throughout the works in ‘Heal Walls’, which include two new large-scale sculptures and several print-based paintings.
Scale of project or dimensions of exhibits:
Cuts (I)
2016
Unique Screen print on canvas
51 x 30 x 3.6 cm
HEAL WALLS
2013-2016 Unique Screen print on Aluminium 100 x 141 x 4cm
Untitled (Window) 2016 Cast jesmonite, aluminium, steel, plywood gesso, acrylic paint 156 x 253 x 44cm
Displaced Façade (House Render) 2016 Epson UltraChrome inkjet, Screen print & True-Grain on canvas 153 x 90 x 10cm
Dhaka Rooftop (House Render) 2016 Epson UltraChrome inkjet, Screen print & True-Grain on canvas 204 x 120 x 10cm
Cuts (II) 2016 Unique Screen print on canvas 51 x 30 x 3.6 cm
Studio Door 2016 Epson UltraChrome inkjet, Screen print & True-Grain on canvas 204 x 120 x 10 cm
Untitled (Echo) 2016 Aluminium, powder coating 183 x 67 x 67 cm
Swapping Pockets 2016 Unique Screen print on canvas 96 x 56.5 x 3.6 cm
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Rat Hole Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Scott Myles on view from September 15 until October 28, 2016. Featuring an installation of new print-based paintings, collages, and sculptural works, the exhibition marks the first time for the artist’s work to be shown in Japan.
AB - Rat Hole Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Scott Myles on view from September 15 until October 28, 2016. Featuring an installation of new print-based paintings, collages, and sculptural works, the exhibition marks the first time for the artist’s work to be shown in Japan.
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M3 - Exhibition
PB - Rat Hole Gallery
CY - Tokyo
Y2 - 15 September 2016 through 28 October 2016
ER -