For the first exhibition presented by The Modern Institute at Sadie Coles HQ in London, Scott Myles will show a selection of new works in a range of media, Missing Words.

In his exploration of modes of display and the context of presentation, sculptural formality is inverted by sleight of hand. Domestic objects are transfigured and transformed through an apparently haphazard painterly technique and an inversion of materials, creating exemplars of the anti-commodity. Through Myles’ fascination with facades, the installation is textured by illusionistic surfaces. The aesthetics of screen printing, marbling, bronze, aluminium, and mirrors create a dialogue around themes of determinism and randomness, transparency and opacity, interpretation and meaning.

The viewer is integrated within this conversation, positioned to re-evaluate the object and to question the rhetoric of works punctuated by dislocation. Ideas of the value of art and the role of the viewer are reflected throughout an installation that mirrors and entices us into manifold ways of seeing.

Scott Myles lives and works in Glasgow.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Askit, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2007); Grey Matter, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (2006); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2005); The Breeder, Athens (2005); HUO I Want to Know Everything!, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2004); Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (2003).

Selected group exhibitions include: The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna (2007); László Moholy-Nagy & Scott Myles, Ancient & Modern, London (2007); Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2007); Tate Triennial: New British Art, Tate Britain, London (2006); Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig (2004); Context, Form, Troy, Secession, Vienna (2003).