In 2024, Rod RAS took part in Nenhuma Nudez Será Castigada, a group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro — a venue where he had already exhibited the previous year, in the group show Erotic, and which would become one of the most recurring spaces in his CV.
Few titles converse so directly with the artist’s work: the name is itself a defense of nudity. That year, Rod RAS was producing the Santos series — one of his most direct bodies of work on faith, body and stigma — and the Shibari & Flowers self-portraits: embroideries in which nudity is at once vulnerability and affirmation, exactly what the exhibition’s name sets out to defend.
Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2024.