In 2023, Rod RAS joined Muito Além da Parada, a group exhibition at Objectos do Olhar, São Paulo — his only exhibition recorded in the city that year, within a period that marked his debut in group shows, with three participations in total.
The title evokes the LGBT pride parade and suggests an art that goes beyond the street’s one-off celebration: it meets a research such as Rod RAS’s, for whom identity affirmation is continuous work — embroidery stitches on guilt, stigma and acceptance, not only festivity, sewn into the durability of thread. It is also in this register that his self-portrait gains political strength — not as a flag, but as a presence.
Group exhibition at Objectos do Olhar, São Paulo/SP, 2023.