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.
Tom de Pekin

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. For Le Nouveau Printemps, 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. As if in a hall of mirrors, the artist dialogues with the museum's collection, revealing the emotions and desires that viewing the works inspires in him, as well as the processes behind his own pictorial work. 
In the museum's basement screening room, the film Haldernablou / Quadriflore (2017), loosely based on Alfred Jarry's play Haldernablou will screen on a loop: on a spectrum between dance and poetry, against a backdrop of mystical performance, this evolutionary creation is divided into four parts, which are so many realms of wonderment: the Park, the Dream, the Pipes and the Village Shaman. Confined in a strange Map of the Tender, gliding from a park to the Brittany coast, Ablou, a page, tries to escape, but Duke Haldern, assisted in his manipulative love by some curious characters, does all he can to keep the page in this fantasy world. 
(Produced by Les Produits Frais, 50', color)

What appeals to me in the structure of this beautiful, obscure text is the way Alfred Jarry uses collage techniques to add layers of meaning to his text. References are varied, emotions and hidden feelings find a real space of freedom. Tom de Pekin

In coproduction with Paul-Dupuy Museum of Precious Arts, Toulouse city hall.
With the patronage of Les Amis du Nouveau Printemps – Toulouse.