tom wilkins
bad timing
While the gallery presents the photographic series My Tv girls by Tom Wilkins at Paris Photo, we are simultaneously devoting a mirror exhibition to him in the space the bridge, entitled Bad Timing and revealing a complementary yet essential facet of this artist.
Although the 35 polaroids that make up this set were originally intended for the My Tv girls series, these captured moments didn’t turn out to be what the author had in mind. But rather than destroying them, Tom Wilkins seems to attach particular importance to the fruits of this serendipity.
Who is Tom Wilkins? That is the question Sébastien Girard has been trying to answer since 2011 when he acquired 900 enigmatic Polaroids, which were later published in 2017 under the title My TV Girls. This series of television captures, ranging from 1978 to 1982, consistently features women and concludes with the only self-portrait in the series where Tom Wilkins portrays himself as a woman. Found in an house in Boston, United States, the acquisition of this extensive photographic series gave rise to the almost detective-like investigation that Sébastien Girard pursued for nearly 12 years in order to unravel the mystery of Tom Wilkins.
