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  • 4ª edição MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro

    4ª edição MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro

    In 2026, Rod RAS took part in the 4th edition of MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro, a group exhibition held at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro. The participation comes at a moment of intense production, in a year when the artist was developing new embroidered works for the O Alquimista, As Feras Também Amam and Jardim Elétrico series.

    Rod RAS’s practice is rooted in freehand embroidery (metallic, polyester and cotton threads on canvas) and in self-portraiture, addressing identity, desire and belonging through his experience as a gay man. Placed within a group show, this production enters into dialogue with other contemporary poetics and reaffirms thread and body as artistic language. It is a practice built up since 2021, when the self-portraits of the Shibari & Flowers series began.

    Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2026.

  • A Gente Quer +

    A Gente Quer +

    In 2025, Rod RAS joined the group exhibition A Gente Quer +, held at Vórtice Cultural within Mix Brasil – Museu da Diversidade, São Paulo. The show adds to a sequence of participations in projects linked to Vórtice Cultural that had begun the year before, when the venue hosted three of his exhibitions.

    That year, the artist was producing works for the A Caçada, Jardim Elétrico and As Feras Também Amam series, alongside self-portraits from Shibari & Flowers. The recurrence of the unclothed male body and of desire as narrative construction brings his work close to exhibitions dedicated to diversity, a field in which Rod RAS’s embroidery asserts, stitch by stitch, a presence. His works already figure in private collections across 20 countries.

    Group exhibition at Vórtice Cultural, Mix Brasil – Museu da Diversidade, São Paulo/SP, 2025.

  • 3ª edição MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro

    3ª edição MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro

    In 2025, Rod RAS took part in the 3rd edition of MUVUCATO Vem de Dentro at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, a project to which he would return the following year, in its 4th edition, deepening an ongoing relationship with a venue that was already one of the most frequent in his CV.

    Built stitch by stitch in freehand embroidery, the artist’s work dialogues with exhibitions that value manual processes and poetics of making. That year, his production included works from the A Caçada and Jardim Elétrico series, alongside the continuing self-portraits of Shibari & Flowers, a series that has accompanied his research since 2021, always in compositions that join the domesticity of thread to the unexpectedness of the subject.

    Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2025.

  • Transbordar

    Transbordar

    Also in 2025, Rod RAS took part in Transbordar, a group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, his third show at the venue that year, closing a season of intense presence in Rio’s circuit, which added up to five participations in group exhibitions, all of them between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

    The title, meaning “overflowing,” is a fitting key to read the artist’s production in that period: embroideries produced in metallic and cotton threads on canvas, spilling beyond the traditional hoop, and a practice that crosses series, from the bound self-portraits of Shibari & Flowers to the mythical figures of Minotauro de Pirenópolis, always with the body as the first territory.

    Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2025.

  • 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.

  • Queereres

    Queereres

    In 2023, Rod RAS took part in Queereres, a group exhibition at Paradoxo Casa Atelier, Rio de Janeiro, his first recorded participation at the venue, to which he would return in 2026 for the Sauna Gay Satanista show.

    The year 2023 corresponds, in the artist’s production, to works from the Minotauro de Pirenópolis and Shibari & Flowers series, embroideries in which myth, body and desire intertwine on the canvas, made in metallic and cotton threads. A show gathered under a name that plays on the word “queer” is a natural environment for research rooted in the experience of a gay man. The participations of that year inaugurated a circulation that has not stopped since.

    Group exhibition at Paradoxo Casa Atelier, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2023.

  • Erotic

    Erotic

    Erotic, at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, was, in 2023, Rod RAS’s first recorded participation in a group exhibition, the starting point of a CV that, three years later, already totals eighteen shows across three Brazilian states.

    The title already indicated the territory: eroticism as a legitimate theme of art. For an artist who embroiders his own unclothed body and desire between men, the show was a place of early inscription. His research, still centered on Shibari & Flowers and Minotauro de Pirenópolis and made in metallic and cotton threads on canvas, already carried the axes that define it to this day: body, desire, guilt and the search for acceptance.

    Group exhibition at OLugar Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2023.

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