Rafael Gomez

RAFAEL GOMEZ (Colombia)

Series: “Encounters”

“Encuentro” is a series through which the young Colombian artist Rafael Gomez Barros reflects and comments on the importance of man’s erotic phase.

The artist uses in this case an appeal by surprise, as is the still life, to induce a clean and straightforward reading of a specific circumstance or the formation of a particular vision of the human condition and relationships that are established on the basis of the conditions. What really captivates is the fact that Rafael speaks of eroticism without resorting to mechanisms known to exploit voyeurism or the eternal figures of naked couples in sensual poses clearly depicting at short instances the resemblance of pornography. Read more…