Pink Boat

Füsun Onur explores form, space, time and the relationships between them with an extraordinary variety of materials. Onur’s only video work "Pink Boat" (2014) is based on an unrealised project from 1993. In the eight-hour video, shot in a single, uninterrupted take, is an inflatable pink boat left in the waters of the Bosphorus with three pink and rectangular objects behind it. Despite the constantly changing direction of the strong current and winds, the boat and the objects surprisingly maintain their position and don’t move any further. The video runs the length of the exhibition’s visiting hours during which the pink quartet tries to keep pace with the Bosphorus’ turbulent, ever-changing rhythm, creating a journey that begins and ends in water without reaching anywhere.