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This Production. (Mixed media installation of 12 works- Solo Exhibition). Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland. 07 April 2012 – 10 June 2012

Exhibition of new artworks, including a site-specific installation, new sculptures and a series of prints produced with DCA Print Studio. ‘Displaced Façade (for DCA)’ was a large-scale installation made from bricks that referenced built architecture and personal memory. Myles investigated SITE architectural practice and examined ‘BOTH-AND’ postmodernism as theorized by Robert Venturi. He produced works referencing Utilitarian street architecture, sculpture and the built environment, alongside research into notions of inside/outside and psychoanalysis. ‘Analysis (Mirror)’ consisted of two transformed bus shelters, upturned one-upon-the-other and coated in silver. This action produced a mise-en-abyme effect within the sculpture where the surfaces reflect themselves and the viewer back and forth. A further series of wall-based sculptures took their form from manila document folders Myles uses to catalogue and archive research material. These folders were enlarged to the artist’s height of 194cm, setting them in relation to the body while literally making reference to containers and systems of index. Many of the artworks on display made illusions to the art historical, social and economic context. The latter subject is an ongoing pre-occupation and could be observed in a number of works including ‘Couples’, ‘Habitat’, ‘Interview’ and ‘Untitled’. Myles’ research interest in reciprocity and exchange (read through Mauss and Bataille) were further developed in a series of pieces in which he recontextulized the posters of the Cuban/ American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres in a bespoke custom built framing device. ‘Habitat’ was a jesmonite cast of one of the eponymous retailers point-of-sale units displayed within an installation after Habitat went into administration in 2011. ‘STABILA (Black and Blue)’ presented the effects of a spirit level being used for something other than its intended function, a visual representation of order tipping into chaos.

Funded by The Henry Moore Foundation, Creative Scotland and Dundee CC.

Associated Catalogue 48pp.