Sociability is the main focus of Turnus’ exhibitions, and the table becomes its symbol – a symbol of fun, getting to know each other, caring lavishness – a feast. Starting from sociability, we create a meeting place with a gigantic table with a sculpture on top.
This apple-globe by Piotrek Kowalski and its aesthetic takes us back to the crude playgrounds of our youth, where – with just our imagination – we transformed the carpet beating racks from our neighbourhoods to carpet beating racks.
Rudolf Steiner's photograph is the part of the Pleasant Valley series, which is a casual snapshot of his travels in the US. These light notes, before the delicate editing, play with our perception and encourage us to follow the author.
Tomek Tofilski photographs everything you would miss the chance to admire. The process of transforming them into singular photographic objects comes from large-format advertising from big city spaces.
Ant Łakomsk, though a painter, is not confined by the medium. Rather than attempting to deconstruct it, she enjoys meandering across its platitudes. She seamlessly blends sculpture and installation into her practice to fully explore the complexity of a theme. Clichés, metaphors, and their often-wry reinterpretations are her source of inspiration.
Wiktoria Kieniksman is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the themes of evolving self-perception and identity. Her works embrace the transformative influence that confronting societal expectations has on womanhood. She’s drawn to places that frown upon taking photos, and her pencil drawings venture into hidden aspects of experiences that cannot be readily documented.
Paweł Zięba’s paintings are the ones where you get the feeling that only moments later an important sentence will happen and that will change the course of their lives. Tension builds, curiosity grows and there could be many solutions to the situation. He imagines, draws and paints his own world - suspended between reality and fiction - an aesthetically pleasing confluence of carefully planned actions and coincidences.
Nadia Markiewicz a visual artist, performer, author of installations and videos. Here also an acrobat walking the line above the city. Balancing her body in search of a centre of gravity seems theoretically impossible due to the asymmetry of the artist's body. Her activity seems doomed to failure, but in the art world anything is possible and the danger is most likely non-existent.
X-PHILES is a research and art collective working with queer poetry. The members of the group work with texts they collect through open calls, trying to democratize the process and not to hierarchise the collected material. Their guiding principle - quantity, not quality - stems from their conviction that every confession is valuable and relevant. In their practice, they rely on the performative dimension of the poetic text as one that allows the recorded experience to be shared not in solitude but in community - enhancing both.
Mania Łukaszewska a photography lover, who turned to painting and drawing. Witty, tattoo-like paintings are well observed and forwarded. The nostalgic movie aura is a universal and welcoming language that is something like a pop song.
Everything said before with the multiplicity of people and themes presented, perfectly reflects the diversed character of Turnus. The table and the space under the table become a visualisation of our idea of an art playground – with all the sociability, surprise and care which is something that we aim to spread in our gallery program.
Photo documentation by Bartosz Zalewski.
