In 2025, Rod RAS was part of Pau Brasil – 100 Anos, a group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro. The show marks a centenary and gathers artists around a reflection on Brazilian art and its continuities. The venue has been, since 2023, one of the most recurring spaces in the artist’s CV.
For an artist who embroiders the body and the landscape with references to Brazilian nature and imagery, taking part inscribes his research in a tradition of debate on national identity. In Rod RAS’s case, that revisiting happens from a queer and autobiographical position, in which handcrafted embroidery becomes at once technique and discourse. Among his works are embroideries that invoke the fauna, flora and myths of the country.
Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2025.