Via Ventura

Via Ventura is like a poor man's Vyner Street, but still pretty good. The other day we went to Klerkx gallery with an exhibition by Matt Calderwood, and Francesca Minini gallery had an exhibition by Simon Dybbroe Møller. Today we went to Prometeogallery, which has an exhibition by Ivan Moudov that I really enjoyed. The space was divided into two rooms, with two distinct sets of work.

This photo is of a piece called Fragments, which is a box displaying an array of artefacts stolen from various exhibitions. For instance, the vertical white stripe on the right-hand side of the box is a leather strap from one of Matthew Barney's pieces, and the odd shape at the front-right is stolen from a Sarah Lucas piece. What made the piece particularly interesting for me was that just two days ago we picked up our own little pilfered souvenirs from an exhibition by Alfredo Jaar:

It's ok, though - Alfredo Jaar gave a talk at Camberwell last year and he explained that people kept taking these slides from his exhibition and he liked it!

The other half of the exhibition was called Traffic Control and were videos of performance pieces in which the artist dressed as a Bulgarian policeman and controlled the flow of traffic - in two pieces he was stood in the middle of the road directing cars; in another video he drove around a roundabout slowly for one hour.