With Red burn, Salma Cheddadi explores masculinity beyond the heroic narrative.

The exhibition presents male figures freed from the codes of virile performance, allowing states of vulnerability, tenderness, and fragility to surface. Through a gaze imbued with sensuality and care, the artist offers a re-reading of the male body in which tenderness becomes a political stance.

Her paintings depict men in moments of release-after effort or after posing within a suspended time where the body ceases to function as a symbol of power and instead becomes a site of emotion and ambivalence. Anchored in the present through contemporary markers, these figures appear familiar, intimate, and deeply human.

The palette is charged with intense chromatic tensions: burning reds, nocturnal blues, and milky whites compose a vibrant, almost flesh-like atmosphere. Red, omnipresent, operates as a zone of urgency and desire a scorching light that draws the eye and makes the bodies pulse.

Through Red burn, Salma Cheddadi proposes a sensitive and complex vision of masculinity, far removed from stereotypes, opening a poetic space for reflection on intimacy, the gaze, and representation