See Line Gallery presents Reinscribe-Scribble, an online solo exhibition by Mores McWreath. A series of videos that interrogate and restage the fragmented nature of human subjectivity. These artworks actively oppose the dominant cultural assumption of a unified or complete subject. The investigation here often leads to an introspective analysis and critical deconstruction of normative behavior. It is not a need to truly “know” one’s self or another because that seems an impossible task, but it is rather a need to make public the theater of perceptions that form individual subjectivities. The goal is to take the vaudevillian stage of the mind and project it out for others to access for the sake of identification. The Nietzschean concept of Perspectivism posits “In so far as the word ‘knowledge’ has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.”

The artists’ body and the bodies of others appear in the work as outlines, extractions, or stacks of random pieces. These quivering piles of rubble are composed of clips, segments, and quotations from private and public, real and imagined histories. They perform on camera in short bursts of dialogue, action or sculpture. These vignettes allow the artist to quickly access a broad range of genres, styles, and sources. The Internet has created access routes to a flood of media that can be channeled through various screens and filtered into the work as references, homage, transformations, and appropriations. The juxtaposition of fragmentary elements culled from the world of images creates a visual and textual metaphor for the nature of human existence in the face of overwhelming information.

The videos in this exhibition point to specific yet non-descript locations created by removing the actors from sitcom sets. The locations are chosen for their limnal qualities, i.e. passageways, vehicles, parking lots, etc. The sets or characters are then digitally hand painted to bring them even closer to a site of contemporary American Realism.

Mores McWreath received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2008-09. Recent group exhibitions include Theoretical Practice at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, 2009; Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2008; End-Times at the Lasso Gallery at the Butcher Shop, Chicago, 2007; and Ghosts of Presence: International Emerging Artists’ Video at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007. He is currently an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union. He will have his New York solo debut at CUE Art Foundation in fall 2009.