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"Raw Desires" Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez. Exhibition
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Open in the appRecommended age: 16 years old Born in 1995 in Barranquilla, Colombia, where he lives and works, Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez develops a visual and interdisciplinary practice that spans drawing, photography, photo-performance, video, performance, installation and object. His work… Recommended age: 16 years old Born in 1995 in Barranquilla, Colombia, where he lives and works, Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez develops a visual and interdisciplinary practice that spans drawing, photography, photo-performance, video, performance, installation and object. His work notably questions the cultural construction of masculinity and the social norms that shape behaviors, appearances and desires associated with the male body. In Raw Desires, the male body becomes a territory where desire, eroticism, constraint, vulnerability and resistance meet. Through homoerotic representations, nude bodies, masks, harnesses and references to the world of football, the artist questions patriarchal and heteronormative models and the injunctions related to what a man is supposed to show, hide, desire or become. Football occupies a particularly important place in his research. Its objects and codes are subverted in order to create tension between traditional representations of virility and fragility, desire, pain and resistance. At Espace Kugler Gallery, the exhibition takes the form of a concentrated and deliberately stripped-down presentation of Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez's work. The artist will be present in Geneva and at the opening, offering the public the opportunity to discover his work and meet him. Raw Desires Rubén Barrios-Rodríguez 12 — 15 November 2026 Espace Kugler Gallery Opening Thursday 12 November at 18:00, in the presence of the artist Exhibition from 12 to 15 November 2026 Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 15:00 to 19:00