Exhibitors
Tom de Pekin & Blan.Bek
Paris • France
Chiens à éventer (2025) is a project initiated by Tom de Pekin and Blan.Bek, in the form of editions and collaborative works. It follows their first collaboration, Chiens à fleurs de peau (2022-2023). In this new experiment, they reactivate the secret language of fans.
Drawing on intimate images and classical engravings, they summon up the art of using this accessory. They use it in the manner of a hanky code, working with light, fluid gestures to agitate and shake up our desires.
Continuing the play on animality that is so dear to them, they invite designer Matisse Di Maggio to outfit them with masks made from inner tubes.
They define this cryptic language by their motto: “A little air to calm warring ardors. A little wind to express the state of our souls.”
Tom de Pekin is an artist, graphic designer, draughtsman, painter and film-maker. His work deals with the way in which each of us relates to our own obsessions and contradictions, and conquers autonomy in our daily relationship with images, contemporary or of earlier times, which we appropriate and adapt to our desires. The Musée Paul Dupuy presented a solo exhibition of his work as part of the Nouveau Printemps de Toulouse in 2024.
Killian Duarte Brandao, also known as Blan.Bek, is a young multidisciplinary visual artist. His practice narrates the various intimate worlds he frequents. In search of a solution to talk about a secret world, he talks about concealed universes, about coming out of the closet, about passage, in-betweens, links, transference, food and sex. Together with Tom de Pekin, he took part in the Queer Rising exhibition (Centre d’Art contemporain la Fabrique, Toulouse, 2024).
Matisse Di Maggio is a designer and performer based in Paris. Her work, which has featured in Rick Owens and Jean-Paul Gaultier collections, revolves mainly around textile research. Her practice materializes, reflects and celebrates subcultures linked to the fetishism of leather, rubber and latex, as well as relationships to codes and bodies in subversive eroticism.