Julien Berthier

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

- Ren Ebel

Flaneuring in the footsteps of the situationists before him, Julien Berthier is preoccupied by those camouflaged apparatuses which guide and delimit the flow of people through urban space: the common potelet – better known in English as a bollard or metal traffic post. With ‘Passion Potelet’, an exhibition of the French artist’s musical sculptures and détourned readymades at Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois in Paris, Berthier makes a triumphant muse out of that most lowly and ubiquitous instrument of urban traffic control.

Occupying the centre of the main gallery space is