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Krimskrams is an exhibition at the Cartel Gallery, a new project space in South East London presenting curatorial experiments in contemporary art. Housed in a black shipping container, Cartel's programme is decided by a flexible consortium of international members, proposing 6 projects a year starting June 2010. 

Acquiring and animal hoarding, abandoned, assortments, boot sales, clumps , crews, combos and the Collyer brothers. Department 56. Electronic eyes, fan clubs, garages, heaps of stuff, hamstern and house clearances. Impulse buys, jackpots and junk. Kleptomania, limited editions, medleys and metal detecting. New & sealed. Obsolete, orders, Plyushkin and pilferage. Quantity & quality, received files, sit ins, stashes, snuff a luff , souvenirs, treasure troves and thrift stores. Unused. Variety, wiring, x marks the spot, yard sales and Zaborskis.

A half-eaten chippy tea, dog-earred scraps of church pews or the golden arches of a fast food sign abandoned at the side of a road.  Krimskrams features artists for whom the habitual nature of scavenging and chancing upon objects influences the work that they make.

Curated by Sam Venables and Richard Proffitt from The Royal Standard, Liverpool