Lucas Goubert (born Marcos Rueda Goubert in Bogotá, 1973) builds his artistic practice on poetry—frequently his own verses serving as the foundation for visual art, installations, and performances. For him, the human body is both territory and cosmos: an endless source of inspiration, a living canvas, and the very medium through which he explores existence. In its curves, scars, and gestures, he discovers landscapes, myths, and the raw material of his work—a universe where poetry and flesh intertwine.

His artistic path began in 1995 with an illustration of a tree, inspired by Gabriela Mistral’s Último Árbol. The pseudonym “Goubert”—a whimsical fusion of his childhood dog’s name and his mother’s maiden name—emerged from an early, fleeting experiment in gay porn, only to become the signature of his creative identity. A profound burnout in early 2024, ignited by decades of relentless pressure in the banking world, became the catalyst for his full immersion into art: not as an escape, but as a homecoming.

Goubert’s work is unflinchingly human, populated by figures who teeter between fragility and resilience. Through poetry, paint, and performance, he seeks not beauty, but truth in its most visceral form—a harmony born of tension, desire, and the unspoken stories etched into skin and bone.