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Tom Lakeman
In my work I seek to examine the expression and appropriation of personal identity. Is it possible to reconstruct identity, and even experiences, by examining the evidence left by individuals interaction with the world? If you strip personal context away from possessions, shared digital data, and consumer habits, how much of ourselves do we unintentionally or intentionally reveal through such externalities, and what implication does this have about conception and expression of identity in the 21st century?
Press & Interviews
2015 – Present
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EMMASBROTHER
Commerical Projects
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Collections 06-18
Objects found containing personal information 2006-2015
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Unclaimed
In my endeavours to assemble the Personal Identity of others I have purchased suitcases of unclaimed luggage and have imagined their owners, their life style, their attitudes and their holidays from what I have found inside. Unclaimed is my reconstruction of the identity of those who I have never met but whose belongings I now own. I have travelled to the destinations I think that they might have returned from reconstructing their existence using their possessions (2009)
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Self Published
A series of self portraits taken and abandoned in a prominent consumer electronics store – a stark insight into human fascination with self, and our willingness to put our image into the ether 50/ 521 Images (2012)
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Private View
These are not sexual objects and yet they confront us with a series of questions and confusions about sexuality, feminism, beauty and art (2013)
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À La Cart
À La Cart is a photographic collection of meals which have been made using ingredients from discarded shopping lists found in supermarkets across London (2015) // www.alacart.london
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Landscape
Deliberate actions creating accidental beauty (2009)
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Contact
studio@tomlakeman.com