Pedro Guedes Rafael (@pedroguedesr) is a visual artist and journalist, with a degree in Social Communication from the University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB) in 2016 and a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) in 2018, currently living and working in São Paulo.
The artist seeks to promote new relationships between the eroticized male body and elements related to gay desire within pop culture. Through the agglutination of images and words from his own social repertoire. His work aims to identify possible discursive flattenings within certain groups of the LGBTQIA+ community.
It is also in the artist's interest to understand "hypermasculinity" as something necessarily close to the notions of exaggeration, saturation, tackiness and redundancy. Among the media used in his most recent works are mirrors, collage and photography.
The artist seeks to promote new relationships between the eroticized male body and elements related to gay desire within pop culture. Through the agglutination of images and words from his own social repertoire. His work aims to identify possible discursive flattenings within certain groups of the LGBTQIA+ community.
It is also in the artist's interest to understand "hypermasculinity" as something necessarily close to the notions of exaggeration, saturation, tackiness and redundancy. Among the media used in his most recent works are mirrors, collage and photography.
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GUEDES, Pedro. SUPERNOVA. 2025. Colagem manual em papel e adesivo vinílico. 30cm x 30cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. BURNING. 2021. Colagem manual em papel e adesivo vinílico. 30cm x 30cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. Fuga. 2021. Colagem manual em papel e adesivo vinílico. 37cm x 26,5cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. Adão. 2021. Colagem manual em papel e adesivo plástico. 30cm x 20,5cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. Bad. 2020. Colagem mista em papel e adesivo plástico. 15cm x 15cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. Poc Napoleonicah. 2020. Colagem mista em papel. 20cm x 30cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.
GUEDES, Pedro. Lojas Paraíso. 2023. Colagem manual em papel e pigmentação prata. 18cm x 29,5cm. Brasil/ São Paulo.