A platform – complete with mattress, food and sanitary articles – is suddenly installed under a bridge. Walled up windows that suddenly bear curtains. The banner reading “Work no more”, borrowed from the French situationists, placed on a large construction site. A video entitled “Hostage” that shows an adult spinning on a children’s merry-go-around with his eyes blindfolded and his hands tied up.
Vladimir Turner’s materials are as diverse as people’s views on the world. Therefore, his work cannot be reduced to documentaries, political and artistic activism or interventions in public space. It is of secondary importance whether the things recognized, taken up, worked on, or staged anew by him stem from the streets or the gallery, whether they are captured on film or installed temporarily. After all, they have to be one thing only: material.