Alberto Escobar | Icarus Falling
watercolor on paper, 28 x 38 cm, 2023

Originally from El Salvador, Escobar (born 1990) moved to Brazil in 2018, mainly for study reasons.
Landscapes, tropical colors and especially the sensuality of Brazilian models inspired him to make drawings and paintings, in which allegories, mythologies, personal experiences, dreams, desires and fetishes merge into an anatomical aesthetic.

The purpose of the highly erotic context is to make a statement that is often taboo in a conservative society: sex as an orgasmic climax and explicitness as a manifesto of showing an intimate bond between gays in the temporariness of existence.