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Background information
"The practice by American conceptual artist Pacifico SILANO is rooted in excavating the printed ephemera of gay culture to create new images that comment on loss, longing and queer melancholy. In particular, he 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 artist’s uncle at the height of the epidemic.
Content
The artist volume, 'I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Pacifico SILANO is his first book, and engages with an ambitious accordion-folded format that references His 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." (© Loose Joints, 2021)
About the US-photo artist, Pacifico SILANO
Photo books by Pacifico SILANO