In 2026, Rod RAS took part in the group exhibition Sauna Gay Satanista at Paradoxo Casa Atelier, Rio de Janeiro — his second show at the venue, following Queereres in 2023. The return consolidates an ongoing relationship with Rio’s independent art circuit.
The universe evoked by the title — desire between men, the night, the imagery of the forbidden — finds direct correspondence in the artist’s research, which addresses sexual repression, guilt and internalized stigma through embroidery and self-portraiture, turning what was once a cause for shame into the very material of the work. In that sense, the show gives body to themes that have run through his production since the earliest embroideries.
Group exhibition at Paradoxo Casa Atelier, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2026.