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Sidney McMahon, Maggot, 2022, UTS Gallery. Photo: Jacquie Manning

Sidney McMahon: Maggot


11 Jun 2022
UTS Gallery 17 May - 10 Jun 2022

Maggot is a trap. The exhibition—a new installation by Sydney-based artist Sidney McMahon—lures you in with a sultry blue light. The hue evokes the familiar blue of the Windows error message, and its even diffusion across the UTS Gallery’s space transfigures its rectangle box into a virtual holding zone, a scene of suspended operations awaiting the user’s intervention.

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