In Tom's drawings, discreetly subversive characters progress through landscapes where time stands still.

It's the whole process I began about twenty years ago in reaction to pictures, photos I take and the landscape I happen to be in, and to the movement of bodies in the middle of it all. In other words, how the body becomes landscape.

In his drawn, filmed and printed works, Tom de Pekin, artist and activist, probes the relationships between texts and pictures, subverting in an erotico-playful vein illustrations that he harvests from personal, anonymous or community archives. Over the course of numerous series, black-and-white has given way to the flamboyant range of colors to be found in his latest works. The Paul-Dupuy Museum welcomes an exhibition conceived as a poetic dialogue between its collection and imaginations fired by the work of Tom de Pekin. The artist expands on the mirror effect to highlight the emotions and desires that viewing the works inspires in him. 

In coproduction with Paul-Dupuy Museum of Precious Arts, Toulouse city hall.