Easy Rider

Easy Rider presents a new body of work consisting of metal and resin sculptures, prints on aluminium, and a sound piece composed by Gediminas Žygus. Developed over the past year and informed by queer films such as Love Lies Bleeding and Titane and the works consider how the boundary between the organic and the industrial begins to blur, corrode, and ultimately collapse.

Rather than a dramatic transformation, Easy Rider offers something quieter but no less visceral: a slow alchemy. Flesh doesn’t disappear but becomes alloyed. Wounds are glossed over. Paez Armando’s process embraces the grotesque and the cinematic, which draws not only from body horror but from the prosthetic ingenuity of 1980s prop-making, when transformation was sculpted, weighty, built by hand creating sculptural environments that feel both seductive and unsettling. Through material excess and tactile precision, Easy Rider stages an encounter with a queer corporeality that is both futuristic and intimate.