08/26/2026
On view in our gallery now: Becoming Of Flesh by Robert Flynt & Ash Allen Ash Allen Robert Flynt
On view through September 7, with a limited-edition publication edited by Luis Alberto Juárez and published by ETS & printed by club del prado
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 fa**ot 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.
