Mercury Release

Galerie Allen is pleased to present Mercury Release, a solo exhibition by Daniel Turner.

For the past decade, Turner has sourced material from institutional, industrial, and regulatory sites with historical, social, or manufacturing significance.
For his third exhibition with Galerie Allen, the artist confronts the exhibition space itself as the medium. Fluorescent bulbs are dropped from ceiling ballasts, altering critical components of perception—transforming mercury and light into a constellation of fractured debris. Shattered glass, insulator pins, and filaments are broadcast across the expanse of the gallery floor. Here, architecture and its functional utilities serve as a catalyst between cause and effect, from release to entropy.

Daniel Turner was born in 1983 in Portsmouth, Virginia, and currently lives and works in New York. The artist’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; and The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.

Group exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine; Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland; and Museen Haus Esters und Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany. Turner’s works are held in the collections of Kunstmuseum Basel, Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FRAC Bretagne, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand-Hornu, ICA Miami, among others. The artist is featured in Out of Focus, curated by Claire Bernardi at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, France, which will travel to CaixaForum Barcelona and CaixaForum Madrid, Spain.