Art among the ruins: Danh Vo's perverse empires

Danh Vo was rescued at sea aged four as his family fled Vietnam. Now, he’s an expert arranger of flotsam and jetsam ... from crates of Carnation milk to a Madonna possessed by the devil and a picture of Queen Victoria’s puppy Looty
A beheading and a wedding; some lines from a song by Nico; a satyr, a cherub and Queen Victoria’s pet Pekingese. The more I look (and there doesn’t seem all that much to see at first), the more Danh Vo’s art troubles me. Amid the exhibition’s reaches of el