Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to announce 110 / 120, an exhibition of two new works by Daniel Turner.

A repetitive pulsing sound thrums throughout the gallery. As viewers enter the space, they encounter an accumulation of polished, nickel-plated brass rods cast diagonally upon the floor. Stacked upon each other, these objects show signs of aggressive intervention: the metal has been shaved away and peeled back to its brass core, altered from its original form. As viewers continue through the gallery and approach the source of the unwavering noise, they find themselves in a darkened area illuminated only by the moving image of an operational sewing machine – the artist’s first ever work in video form. The needle sews nothing, instead hammering away at itself in a laborious pretense. Addressing systems of production and utility and making reference to the boundaries of the autotelic, each work refers pointedly to both manual labor and the worker yet both are markedly absent.