I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine

Le livre

American conceptual artist Pacifico Silanos practice is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, Silano uses the gestures of framing, cropping and layering vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its reverberations on queer lives, which included the loss of the artists uncle at the height of the epidemic. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine is Silanos first artists book, and engages with an ambitious accordion-folded format that references Silanos photo-based installations: two twenty-panel long sequences that can be read as both one continuous collage and a sequence of individual images. Included in the book is an interview with the artist by José Diaz, Chief Curator of The Andy Warhol Museum.