Errabundeo Córdoba 1 frames cyclical touch photography—male bodies in intimate proximity suggesting emotional pattern looping back onto itself. Rey doesn't dramatize heartbreak but reveals subtle inevitability of repetition through corporeal contact. Each embrace claims uniqueness yet echoes prior gestures of intimacy. The photograph captures the fragile moment when physical touch recognizes the pattern—bodies understanding they participate in endless amorous cycle.
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.
Cyclical touch photography where intimate male contact reveals amorous patterns—bodies recognizing endless repetition. From Errabundeo by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Cyclical Touch Photography – Errabundeo Cordoba 1 by Javier Rey
Errabundeo (Cordoba 1), 2014
From The Series Errabundeo
Archival Pigment Print, Color Edition
Limited Edition.
Unframed
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.
