Do It on the Dance Floor documents Rafael Medina's early years in Berlin, focusing on the queer clubbing scene. The series emerges from an interest in the subjective experience of those dancing — how they perceive and move through the space. For many, the dance floor is one of the few places where they can be themselves without restraint. It's a space where queer bodies and identities are affirmed simply by existing there. This matters politically. In a world that constrains how you can move, speak, and desire, dancing is a form of freedom and resistance.

Formally, Medina uses multiple exposures to approach this reality. The layered, blurred images attempt to convey what the dance floor actually feels like from within — the sensory intensity, the music and lights overwhelming the senses, the altered state where time loosens and the body moves beyond conscious control. The photographer doesn't document the scene from outside. He performs the experience himself.

The work was previously exhibited at the group exhibition DISCOnstruction in Berlin in 2020.

Photos from the series were published in the FishEye Magazine, in the European Photography Magazine and in the "New queer photography" book.

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