ARTISTS TALKING

The emotional juxtaposition of joy and misery is surprising. One minute I'm a miserable commuter and the next enveloped in joy peering at a collection of life-sized stuffed animals in glass-walled sheds dotted around Bedford Square Garden. 'A Moveable Bestiary' is just what it says. The artists Olga and Alexander Florensky have revived the Russian tradition of animal-based attractions. These beasts are artificial and there is complaisance in their attitude, suggesting a harmony and shared optimism with the viewer. Trophy sturgeon with special mechanism permitting extension of length is a fish that can be unzipped and extended to fit our favourite angler's yarn, a yardstick to be measured by.

Taxidermy by Olga Florensky on the ground floor continues the exploration of stuffed animals or chuchelos (Russian for stuffed animals) with a mixture of screenprints and interactive (mains wired for movement) pet-like creatures. The screenprints are playful maps of construction. In all the cartoonish blueprints, the animals either appear to be 'happy' or comfortably resigned to their role, encouraging us to join in and create our own low maintenance artifice. Cachalote with water jet is a whale on stilts with easy access to the belly revealing an assembly of wood and G-clamps alongside illustrations of whale history – a contemplative reminder of our own brutality.

Modest architecture by Alexander Florensky consists of working drawings and architectural structures. The drawings, Amusement tower, a helter-skelter type device for jumping into water and Floating gazebo a summerhouse on the lake, alongside the realised objects in the room remind us of the fun and reward of experimentation. One device summed up the exhibition, an ensign on a pole with a motorised fan attached – keeping the flag flying for observational amusement. Where's that bit of wood, I think I'll make a cat in a floating hat.