Errabundeo Córdoba 2 positions corporeal drift photography as meditation on inevitability—intertwined male bodies inhabiting contact not as destination but as passage. Intimate touch here is transit, not permanence. Rey emphasizes solitude within connection through close physical proximity, suggesting even bodily intimacy contains displacement. The photograph articulates attachment's paradox: seeking permanence in embrace while condemned to wander from love to love.
Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he realizes then he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love to love. — Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse.
Corporeal drift photography where intimate male bodies exist as transit—touch as passage rather than permanence. From Errabundeo by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Corporeal Drift Photography – Errabundeo, Cordoba 2 by Javier Rey
Errabundeo (Cordoba 2), 2014
From The SeriesErrabundeo
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Javier Rey is a Colombian artist and photographer. His work has been shown in many collective exhibitions, solo exhibitions, and several international art fairs such as ArtLima (Peru), Scope Art Fair (Miami), and La Feria Del Millón (Colombia). Rey's work has also appeared in books such as "Unlocked", by the Greek collective Atopos, and was chosen as one of the 145 most relevant visual artists and photographers on the web in 2015. His work have been featured in several publications in Colombia, the USA, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and other countries.
