Tom Beck (b.1996) is a London based artist using photography to encourage the potential for re-imagining the dormant and familiar. A conversance with objects and sites around him act as an anchor to respond to via performative and sculptural interventions. Throughout his work there is a tension between the indexical reading of photography and the other worldly.

Buildings Fragment is a concertina photobook and short story based within a disused hospital that the artist has co-inhabited for multiple years. Within seven panels there are seven images that depict an animated destruction of a discarded mattress that was found within the passages of the building. This object that represents support, rest and healing is now shown fragmented and torn. The rubble of foam that fills the photographic frame is symbolic with the inevitable destruction and gentrification of the building Beck inhabits. The accompanying short story written by the artist describes a self reflective journey where the walker describes labyrinthine wanderings, heightened senses and the event of destruction.

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