July 2026
Exhibition
@ SRC
Becoming Of Flesh
An exhibition by Robert Flynt & Ash Allen
On view through September 7th
On view through September 7th
Becoming is not a spontaneous act, but a process of sedimentation and transit. For the body to achieve transformation, it must first pass through various experiences, invocations, and awakenings; it must be inhabited by the question before the answer. Just as human anatomy allows us to understand the basic organization of matter, here the body, in order to become, requires a relational bond that leads him to ecstasy and to the very essence of that mutation. This dialogue does not happen by chance; it is a technical and spiritual dialogue, a result of the endeavor of Robert Flynt and Ash Allen to transmit what happens inside a body and then expel it as vibrations of light.
In this journey, it is vital to distinguish the phenomenon, as the legendary faggot Néstor Perlongher would say: while hallucinations are a purely individual event, a narcissistic and untransmissible refuge that serves as a support for no message, the vision possesses a collective, almost sacred support. There is a common code here that allows for the exchange of experiences between both works, situated in different contexts, yet united by the same tactile frequency.
Flynt operates as an anatomist of the penumbra;
Since 1985, he has established an intimate relationship with the solarized image, the darkroom, the juxtaposition, and the negative to transform his creatures into an expansion of the body that defies the limits of the skin. Allen continues this trajectory, by persisting on the male body as a territory of exploration through light and cyanotype. What lies behind this great obsession is the insistence in stripping away every pre-established category of how to be a man. The difficulty of any shared encounter is linked, precisely, to the dissolution of the "j", to that surrender where identity gives way to potency.
These are photographs in which the passage of time is vital to engaging in this conversation; images gathered from 1991 through 2025. They are marked by multiple generations, moments, and collective exposures that make it impossible not to question how masculinity has evolved in the face of the cruelty inflicted by the idea of "Pride" in its emptiness and selfishness. Everything suggests that desire is an energetic inheritance. In this dialogue, and in the works of Flynt and Allen, resides a political and poetic intention: that of teaching us how one can, how one might, learn to become.
On view until September 7th
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the publication of BECOMING OF FLESH by Robert Flynt & Ash Allen, edited by Luis Juárez and published by ETS Riso. Printed in Barcelona, Spain, by Club del Prado, the publication is a limited edition of 200 copies. Installation by James Kerley.
In this journey, it is vital to distinguish the phenomenon, as the legendary faggot Néstor Perlongher would say: while hallucinations are a purely individual event, a narcissistic and untransmissible refuge that serves as a support for no message, the vision possesses a collective, almost sacred support. There is a common code here that allows for the exchange of experiences between both works, situated in different contexts, yet united by the same tactile frequency.
Flynt operates as an anatomist of the penumbra;
Since 1985, he has established an intimate relationship with the solarized image, the darkroom, the juxtaposition, and the negative to transform his creatures into an expansion of the body that defies the limits of the skin. Allen continues this trajectory, by persisting on the male body as a territory of exploration through light and cyanotype. What lies behind this great obsession is the insistence in stripping away every pre-established category of how to be a man. The difficulty of any shared encounter is linked, precisely, to the dissolution of the "j", to that surrender where identity gives way to potency.
These are photographs in which the passage of time is vital to engaging in this conversation; images gathered from 1991 through 2025. They are marked by multiple generations, moments, and collective exposures that make it impossible not to question how masculinity has evolved in the face of the cruelty inflicted by the idea of "Pride" in its emptiness and selfishness. Everything suggests that desire is an energetic inheritance. In this dialogue, and in the works of Flynt and Allen, resides a political and poetic intention: that of teaching us how one can, how one might, learn to become.
On view until September 7th
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the publication of BECOMING OF FLESH by Robert Flynt & Ash Allen, edited by Luis Juárez and published by ETS Riso. Printed in Barcelona, Spain, by Club del Prado, the publication is a limited edition of 200 copies. Installation by James Kerley.
