My name is Benjamin Tagger, a Montreal-based artist originally from Venezuela. My work sits at the intersection of queer eroticism, geography, and intimacy.
I grew up as a gay kid who communicated through images long before I had the words for desire, and over the years—moving and starting over multiple times as an immigrant—art became the clearest way for me to understand identity, borders, and the men who shape my world.
The way we inhabit our bodies
This is a series of handmade illustrations created on old maps, where I explore nature through intricate linework. In addition. Through these works, I reflect on sexuality, identity, and self-expression—how our origins, journeys, and imagined futures shape the way we inhabit our bodies.
While maps suggest boundaries, the body and mind remain free, constantly redefining their own terrain. My artistic practice through queer eroticism centers on the male body and its diverse possibilities, expressed through photography, illustration, and mixed media.
Nudity as language
Photography, drawing, and collage allow me to use nudity as a language: a way to strip away masks, shame, and all the polite versions of ourselves we’re taught to perform. My process is slow and based on trust, beginning with long conversations and unfolding over weeks or months.
That in-between space helps me understand what really attracts me to someone—their personality, their kinks, their vulnerability—and how our energies create the erotic tension that becomes the work.
Over time, many of the people who have posed for me became some of my closest friends, and together we’ve formed a small community built on curiosity, art, and shared erotic openness.
For me, the work doesn’t begin or end on the table in my studio. It’s a way of living—something I breathe, think, and experience constantly as a sexual, imaginative individual whose desires and creativity fuel each other.
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