Tom de Pekin

Tom de Pekin is an artist, graphic designer, draftsman, painter and director. At the Brussels Ass Book Fair, he will present his illustrated travel diaries and a series of publications on the (re)appropriation of images. In his art and research, de Pekin draws on a personal and multifaceted archives of intimate, anonymous or publicly sourced images. By playing a mirror game with these pictures and their representations, he emphasises the space in between, revealing the displacement of desires and emotions. His work shows how we use old and new images as an outlet for our own obsessions and contradictions, in a daily struggle for autonomy and affirmation.