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BRIDEGROOMS STRIPPED BARE BY THEIR BACHELORETTES

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BRIDEGROOMS STRIPPED BARE BY THEIR BACHELORETTES

This series of paintings tells the story of a space—not only the pictorial space but also the material surface, the folds, the fasteners, and the hidden scenes embedded in the body of the artwork. The canvas is not a window, but a costume. Beneath the sequins, vinyl, zippers, furs, and snaps—materials commonly worn by male strippers—something waits to be revealed.

These abstract paintings, at first glance, appear to play with color, shape, and texture. But within the folds, behind the buttons, there are hidden figurative images: scenes of bachelorettes undressing grooms in performances charged with sexuality, voyeurism, and ritual. The painting becomes a body, and the viewer is invited to unzip, to unbutton, to undress it.

The gesture of opening the artwork mimics the behavior of an audience at a strip show—curious, complicit, aroused. What begins as geometric abstraction gives way to narrative figuration. These are paintings to be touched, engaged with, activated. They suggest that looking is never innocent—that every gaze carries desire, that every object hides a story, and that every artwork has a secret that only curiosity can unlock.

Naked men. Women celebrating, desiring. Stolen moments. Ritual farewells.

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Syd Krochmalny

"I try to make a subject out of that 'object,' to redeem it, to give a voice to what cultural tradition has configured as a utensil of desire."

Exhibitions

Kinky Room

The Slip, New York
April-May 2025

Naugthy Room

The Slip, New York
August-October 2024

Bridegrooms Stripped Bare by Their Bachelorettes

Gallery 50 inc., New Jersey
February 2020

Press & Essays

¿QUÉ ES MÁS MACHO?
Essays on masculinities

 

by Gonzalo Aguilar
Fondo de Cultura Económica
2023

Syd Krochmalny: striptease, capitalismo y subjetividades. El cuerpo, ese instrumento animado.

by Alejandro Modarelli
Revista Anfibia
13 feb, 2023

No Shame in the Slutverse, Please

SK

© 2025 by Syd Krochmalny

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