An Artist Is Selling All the Underwear Men Left in His House for $50k

To pull off this piece, Andrade bought a vacuum-sealing machine to seal the briefs himself. In 2020, he had a similar art installation that consisted of Speedos left behind in changing rooms in Recife, Brazil. Those items were collected over the course of 10 years.

As a 41-year-old Brazilian man, Andrade’s new installation can be perceived as a piece of queer sexual liberation. “[The art installation] is very much about desire and the gaze on the male body,” Roesler noted.

While some of the biggest LGBTQ+ Pride events take place in Brazilian metropolitan cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, it is still pretty dangerous to be queer in the country as a whole. As such, it’s possible that Andrade’s installation is a celebration of gay sex.

Art collectors with $50k to spend – and maybe an underwear fetish – your time has come!