I met a curious photographer last night at this refurbished gallery/restaurant in Wapping - the Wapping Hydarulic Power Station, which currently shows works by Sergei Shutov. Putting aside my impression of the show, I wish I knew who this photographer was, taking pictures of the displays and... It is dreadful to imagine myself in that stranger's photographs (God knows how beautifully ugly I looked there, never mind). Regardless, I should have asked for his name at least.
The place is quite interesting by itself for once being a power station. The exhibit was, although rather small with 1 space installation and 3 works on paper, inspiring enough to keep people around for a good half hour at least.
It just happened that I am in the middle of reading "The Devil" now, by the Russian author whose anti-European attitudes can relate to some of what this contemporary exhibit seemed to have conveyed. The rise of democracy in Eastern Europe and what seems to me so confusing of the religious amalgamation in Russia, are just few of many topics, I'm sure, that both fascinate and pester thinkers in the discourse of Modernism.
