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George Egerton Warburton, Wincing wind-chime, repugnant fold-out breath (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, Wincing wind-chime, repugnant fold-out breath (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Bus Metaphor' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Bus Metaphor' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Measured Response of a Machine Undergoing Intensive Therapy' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Measured Response of a Machine Undergoing Intensive Therapy' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Weapon Soup Boils Over as Stocks in Metaphors Plummet' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'Sucking on Some Clock' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'Sucking on Some Clock' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'Sucking on Some Clock' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'Dead Alive Dead' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'The Bus Metaphor' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, Wincing wind-chime, repugnant fold-out breath (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
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George Egerton Warburton, 'Recesses 1-26' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

Useless actions + the rhythm of nonsense at George Egerton Warburton’s Wincing wind-chime, repugnant fold-out breath

, 18 August 2017

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.

George Egerton Warburton, ‘Recesses 1-26’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

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. **

George Egerton-Warburton’s Wincing wind chime, repugnant fold-out breath was on at Melbourne’s Sutton Gallery, which ran July 1 to July 29, 2017.