George Egerton-Warburton at Château Shatto

Artist: George Egerton-Warburton

Exhibition title: English

Venue: Château Shatto, Los Angeles, US

Date: November 18, 2017 – January 20, 2018

Photography: Elon Schoenholz, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Château Shatto

George Egerton-Warburton employs text, performance, sculpture, painting and video in his practice which embraces stylistic dissonance, and the syntax of conceptual art. Referring to day-to-day situations, Egerton-Warburton examines the discord between impulses and behaviour shaped by cultural norms. His work, varying in scale and duration, corresponds to the distortion of time in space constructed by late capitalism. At odds with this space, Egerton-Warburton questions it’s affect on mental health, social structures, his relationship with the natural landscape that is simultaneously nostalgic and destructive, and the body’s agency under administrative labour processes required of it. He creates elusive situations anchored by droll humour and irony. Sympathetic structures and topologies of stress are cobbled together in textured installations.

George Egerton-Warburton, English, 2017, exhibition view, Château Shatto, Los Angeles

George Egerton-Warburton, Truffle hunting (cortical), 2017, Artist frame; walnut, dibond, dog poo, digital print, 18.75 x 24.75 x 1.5 in / 47.6 x 62.9 x 3.8 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, Truffle hunting (limbic), 2017, Artist frame; walnut, dibond, dog poo, digital print, 18.75 x 24.75 x 1.5 in / 47.6 x 62.9 x 3.8 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, Truffle hunting (reptilian), 2017, Artist frame; walnut, dibond, dog poo, digital print, 18.75 x 24.75 x 1.5 in / 47.6 x 62.9 x 3.8 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English i, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 17.5 x 12 x 23 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English ii, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 17.5 x 12 x 23 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English iii, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 17.5 x 12 x 23 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English iv, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 17.5 x 12 x 23 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English v, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 17.5 x 12 x 23 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 58.4 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English vi, 2017, DC motor, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, 18 x 12 x 32 in / 44.5 x 30.5 x 81.5 cm

George Egerton-Warburton, English vii, 2017, 4 DC motors, cardboard, wood, brushed stainless steel, Dimensions variable

George Egerton-Warburton, Paddock addiction, 2017, Schaben’s super foam concentrate, Tracer hot pink foam dye, truffle oil, plastic, air compressor, water, Dimensions variable