Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present Peripheries Vol. 2: Echoes Within, the first solo exhibition by Havana-born artist, Rigo (José Rigoberto Rodríguez Camacho) in New York. Echoes Within unveils twenty powerful portraits that draw us deep into the interior world of the human condition. Painted in his signature “Faux-Naïf” style, the works reject conventional beauty in favour of raw, unfiltered expressiveness. Distorted, tender, and sometimes grotesque, Rigo’s portraits pulse with a psychological intensity that feels both familiar and uncanny.
Rendered in bold color and intuitive brushwork, each face appears haunted by its own echo - of memory, emotion, and the multiplicity within. They remind us that the self is never singular: it is the neighbour, the other, the us. Together, the paintings form a chorus of gazes that confront and unsettle, inviting us to reckon with the echoes that reside within us all.
