Scott Myles @ DCA, 7 Apr-10 Jun

It seems only right that artist Scott Myles’ first major solo show in the UK would take place at Dundee Contemporary Arts. A Dundonian himself, Myles graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design some 15 years ago.

Now represented by The Modern Institute in Glasgow, Myles has recently been making great big document folders that look like Claes Oldenburg decided to satirise the Stasi’s inclination to file surveillance intelligence. Amusingly sinister, the larger than life stationery forces us to consider our own dimensions and in turn our depressing finitude.

Alongside the outsized office paraphernalia, Myles will show Analysis (Mirror) – a new sculpture made up of two upturned bus shelters, one on top of the other, covered in graffiti and vandalism. It will function as a kind of indoor pavilion, reflecting the surrounding gallery and exhibition visitors on its damaged surface.

Referencing his years as a Dundonian youth, going around the city on his skateboard, Myles will create a new sculpture that references the urban environment and the derelict space once used by the young Myles as an unofficial skate park, that came to be redeveloped into DCA. Displaced Façade (for DCA) will be three brick wall segments that look like a complete, unbroken wall from a particular angle, giving the impression of an illusory wholeness – perhaps a subtle critique of Dundee’s gentrification in the 90s when Myles was a youth and DCA was first conceived.

Also an interesting printmaker, Myles will exhibit a new series of prints called STABILA (Black and Blue). The work reproduces evidence from a court case where a STABILA branded spirit-level was used as a weapon. Normally utilised as a tool for achieving balance, Myles explores how this very balance can quite easily tip into chaos. [Andrew Cattanach]