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  • Nenhuma Nudez Será Castigada

    Nenhuma Nudez Será Castigada

    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.

  • 3º Festival Vórtice

    3º Festival Vórtice

    In 2024, Rod RAS took part in the 3rd Festival Vórtice at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo, the edition in which he received the Best Artist award, the first recognition recorded in his CV.

    The recognition crowns a year of intense participation in group shows, six in total in 2024. At the festival, his embroidered production in metallic threads (then centered on the Santos series and the Shibari & Flowers self-portraits) found a context attuned to themes of body, desire and difference. They are works in which the slowness of embroidery meets the urgency of the themes, and the award broadened the circulation of a production now held in private collections across 20 countries.

    Group exhibition at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo/SP, 2024.

  • Falo de Erotismo 1ª edição

    Falo de Erotismo 1ª edição

    The first edition of Falo de Erotismo took place in 2024 at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo, marking Rod RAS’s debut in a project he would join in every edition held through 2025, in a year that added up to six group shows in his CV, between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

    Dedicated to eroticism, the show offered a precise space for the artist’s research, which uses freehand embroidery to represent the male body, desire and vulnerability, themes running through series such as Santos and Shibari & Flowers and across his entire production, made of layers of thread, of time and of memory, in which the manual meets the autobiographical and the intimate.

    Group exhibition at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo/SP, 2024.

  • Ménage 3

    Ménage 3

    In 2024, Rod RAS also joined Ménage 3, a group exhibition at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo, one of several of the artist’s projects at the venue that year, when Vórtice hosted three of his six exhibition participations.

    The title suggests encounters and relationships outside the norm, a field in which Rod RAS’s work moves naturally: gay desire, the multiplicity of the body and queer imagery are the raw material of his embroidery, from Minotauro de Pirenópolis to the Santos series, then in production. They are embroideries that join the delicacy of technique to the force of the subjects, in a production that was born from the self-portrait and expanded into mythical figures and the Brazilian landscape.

    Group exhibition at Vórtice Cultural, São Paulo/SP, 2024.

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