EMIRHAKIN approaches RoB as a living archive of contemporary desire, where fantasy, care, and taboos come together. He reinterprets the shop's materials as cultural and spiritual symbols and questions normative masculinity. By connecting the erotic with the devotional, he translates desire into tangible forms such as textiles, text, and performance.
His practice, from performance to installation, examines how bodies, space and time are socially constituted and how queer ways of experiencing can disrupt fixed structures.
Founded in 1975, RoB Amsterdam is a leading specialist in custom-made leather fetish gear, located at Warmoesstraat 71 in Amsterdam.
