George Egerton Warburton presented solo exhibition Wincing wind-chime, repugnant fold-out breath at Melbourne’s Sutton Gallery, which ran July 1 to July 29.
The installation recalled a WWII infirmary, lined with small, standardised beds and other architectural interventions dotting the space, including kinetic sculptures moving antiseptically like robots. The space creates a strange rhythm; a back-and-forth between movement and hiccups.
Each machine performing a ‘useless action’ comes into conversation with poetic words placed around the room, which become nonsensical to communicate the psychological state of dissociative fugue. **