Luiz V., verso, 2017

In this work, Duda Breda turns the gaze to the reverse, not as retreat, but as refusal. The model’s back is muscular, erect, and seemingly invulnerable, yet precisely this display of idealised strength suggests its own burden. The subject faces away, denying the viewer access to identity, expression, and affirmation. Instead, we are left to contemplate the architecture of masculinity: the shoulder blades like shields, the spine a fragile axis, the stance a studied performance.

Here, the classic male nude is reimagined not as an invitation to desire but as an inquiry into the conditions of being desired — and what one sacrifices to meet that standard. The darkness surrounding him presses inward, perhaps symbolic of the internalized constraints of virile idealism. What we do not see becomes as important as what we do.

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