Sammy Slabbinck began buying midcentury magazines in his teens. It was the early nineties and every weekend he would scour the the flea market in his home town of Bruges. When the economic crisis hit in 2009, he lost his job and began to experiment with the paper hoard he'd amassed over the previous decades, slicing the images from their original contexts into something wittier and more vital.
Sammy Slabbinck: If Magritte had read womens magazines...
Lucy Davies, The Telegraph , November 28, 2015