Queer Lens - Lente Queer

Belenartspace

C/Belén 5,Madrid, Spain

In collaboration with Muestra-T: Madrid's Pride Week

26.5. - 6.9.2026

Through a queer lens, the gaze in Daniel Garbade’s work transforms seemingly everyday scenes into territories of ambiguity and symbolic tension. What at first glance might appear neutral or familiar shifts into a more intimate dimension, where gestures, postures, and relationships between bodies suggest open-ended narratives about desire, identity, and vulnerability.

Within this approach, the erotic is not presented explicitly; rather, it emerges as a persistent suggestion—a contained vibration that resides in the proximity of bodies, in averted gazes, or in the silence between figures. The chromatic economy—often reduced to black and white—intensifies this reading by eliminating distractions and focusing attention on the physical and emotional presence of the subjects. The queer lens in Garbade’s work does not seek to define fixed identities, but to question norms of representation, opening a space in which the body is freed from rigid categories. In this way, his works invite a more fluid perception of desire, where the masculine and the feminine, the public and the private, the intimate and the political intertwine. The result is a visual poetics that, through subtlety, proposes new ways of seeing and understanding the human experience.