Engaging with a former psychiatric institution in Holdenweid, Switzerland, Daniel Turner’s ‘(Holdenweid) Burnish 7’ is part of a series of paintings created in relation to the artist’s solo exhibition, ‘Three Sites,’ at the Kunsthalle Basel Museum (2021). Turner extracted an oil tank once used to heat Holdenwied and transformed it into loose-particle metal wool. The bronze wool was then meticulously pushed into the canvas, leaving layer upon layer of a burnished stain on the canvas’s surface. Turner’s painting practice is just one facet of his examination with the deconstruction and transformation of materials, having melted, burned, and dissolved objects into sculptures, wall burnishes and large-scale installations. While the term ‘painting’ is most readily applied to a work on canvas, Turner considers pieces such as this as radically flattened sculptures that are steeped in transformed matter, successfully removing objects from a public site and transmitting them into a private space.