Behind the Eyes is a new installation developed specifically for the space of Franz Kaka. The works in the exhibition continue Rogers' focus on encounters between human and animal, and the wider implications regarding power, control, care, and desire that these encounters bring to bear. Invisible compositional infrastructures - pictorial and spatial - frame the exhibition. Rogers is interested in how these guides conform movement and seeing, and how the arbitrariness of formatting can restrict a body. As a counterpoint, a new sculpture made from destroyed car parts introduces a spirit of playful vandalism towards human property and orderliness.
Scott Rogers (born Calgary, CA) lives in Glasgow, Scotland. Scott has an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (UK), a BFA from the University of Calgary (CA) and also studied at the Staedelschule (Frankfurt, DE). Solo exhibitions include Collective (Edinburgh, UK), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, CA), YYZ Artists' Outlet (Toronto, CA), Glasgow Sculpture Studios (UK), Artspace (with Sarah Rose, Auckland, NZ), One Night Only (Oslo, NO), and PM Galerie (Berlin, DE). Scott’s work has been part of group exhibitions, screenings, and performances at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, DE), CCA Glasgow (UK), Amsterdam Kunstverein (NL), Western Front (Vancouver, CA), The Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, CA), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Platform (Melbourne, AU), Nanaimo Art Gallery (CA), Glasgow International (UK), Alaska Projects (Sydney, AU), St Paul St Gallery (Auckland, NZ) and Portikus (Frankfurt, DE). Scott has made publications with Mark Von Schlegell, Mason Leaver-Yap, and most recently co-edited "Recognition", the 14th edition of the journal F.R.DAVID with Will Holder. He recently completed the first leg of an exchange between La Ira de Dios (Buenos Aires, AR) and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (UK). These two residencies will culminate in an exhibition at ESW as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2018.