Rui Barros

'Waterspout'- ceramic stoneware and oil painting.

Wall mount 32×30×13 cm

Sometimes life throws you unexpected, wonderful gifts.

The extraordinarily talented and sensible videographer @josetehuedo came to the studio and worked his magic.

Thanks to @bruzzbe / Bruzz International Culture for the interest and this great interview.

It's a little and rare insight about me and my work.

Original Video with Flemish subtitles:

https://www.bruzz.be/en/videoreeks/zaterdag-16-en-zondag-17-december-2023/video-rui-barros-i-had-accept-making-art

#belgiumartist #artiststudio #contemporaryartist

An opera/ music theater exploring the story of Salomé.

Here in a set up for a private show at Axel Vervoordt.

Production by Oester, partenered with LoD (Ghent), Muziektheater Transparant (Antwerp), Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) and Axel Vervoordt.

" Invasive species " , stoneware and bespoke glazes. 45 cm tondo (wall mount)

'Ciel de plomb '. Stoneware and bespoke metal glazes. 45x45x40 cm

“La fin de l’innocence”, Stoneware and naturally induced crystals. © Rui Barros

‘Fallen love with rising vanitas’

Ledas Geist- Leda and the Swan is essentially a story of deception, a disguise of identity and rape, here revisited in this time of awareness. In the age of social networking, filtered embellishment and projected identity, dating apps provide a frivolous catalogue of choice without a real empathic connection. Again, objectifying without considering the other in favour of unbridled desire. A face and a body are no more important than the next 'swipe'. The Swan, an analogy of the phallus with its unnatural proportions, embellished within its frail virility, almost resembling an adornment of icing sugar on a wedding cake.