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What initially formally germinated as a mid-COIVD exhibition foray into intimacy
in a rehabilitating society, barriers to intimacy became a six-year long
investigation into understanding desire from a principle question: what gets in
the way?  


Barriers to intimacy are all the socio-economic constructs, gender roles, power
dynamics, and tools and technologies that operate under larger systems of
oppression and how they interfere with regulating our meaningful social
relationships built on meeting each others needs.They are the invisible markers
behind the scenes that are creating the gestalt of intimacy under systems designed
for extraction and exploitation.


Desire functions economically. Limerence as a narrative vehicle describes not
only the erotic or romantic connotations themselves, but also acts as a poorly
disguised substitution for desiring [cultural] capital and trying to reconcile
with all of its invisible implications.


                                   


Marcus Masaki Rodriguez (Los Angeles) is a writer and artist who received
his BFA as a Visionary Practice Scholar from California College of the Arts
in Painting & Drawing with a minor in Critical Ethnic Studies. He is a two-time
Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern working in curation, higher education, and
collections management. His work was included in the SUR: Biennial in 2023.
In 2025, he was a resident at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, where he was
recognized with a director’s award for his short erotic film series.