"I Love Our Sex" : A Polaroid Manifesto Opening
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Opening Friday, Ocotber 24, at Loom + Ten, we are honored to present a new body of work by Ryan “Rude Polaroids” Rudewicz — an immersive, uncompromising, and audacious photographic exploration of desire, queerness, and self-discovery through the intimate immediacy of Polaroid.
In an era dominated by digital reproduction and sanitized imagery, Rudewicz reclaims the analog — harnessing the texture, warmth, imperfection, and immediacy of Polaroid to bear witness to lives often censored, unseen, or erased. No filters, no edits, just raw presence.
“I never learned about sex…”
This is more than a poetic line — it is a rumination on gender, shame, secrecy, fear, and education. It is a confessional, a rupture, a yearning to witness and be witnessed. In these images, Rudewicz lays bare his own process of self-education: through the digital dark searches, the fleeting encounters, the stuttered intimacies, the nervous rhythms of first touch.
Each Polaroid becomes a fragment of a map: of pleasure, of identity, of rebellion. There are drag legends, tender embraces, erotic gestures, quiet glances, and audacious declarations. Through this archive, Rudewicz posits a manifesto of ownership over one’s body, one’s desires, one’s gaze.
Polaroids offer no retakes, no post-production erasures — their magic is in their impermanence and immediacy. Here, they function as artifacts and provocations: fragile, faded, bold.
This exhibit is an invitation — to lean in rather than shy away, to confront shame with dignity, to meet queerness on its own terms. Visitors are invited to linger, reflect, be unsettled, laugh, blush, question — but above all, to see themselves (or glimpses of self) in the frame.
Join us on Friday October 24, 6–9 pm, for an opening reception where Rudewicz will be in conversation, images will speak, and the manifest is in the making.
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