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Pacifico Silano @ Stellar Projects

Pacifico Silano, The Meat Rack, 2018
Courtesy the artist and Stellar Projects

Pacifico Silano: After Silence
June 28 – July 27, 2018

“In After Silence, Pacifico Silano presents a new series of photographs, which evoke the emotional and physical voids felt as a result of the AIDS epidemic.

Through fragmenting, obscuring, layering, reassembling, and re-photographing, Silano recontextualizes gay erotica from the 1970’s pre-AIDS era, such as the Richard Marshall Collection of Gay Pornography at  NYU’s Fales Library. The images found within the Disco-era magazines such as Blueboy, Honcho, and  Drummer, are saturated with innocence and naiveté; euphoric colors; and an aura of total liberation.

Today, we access this archive with the knowledge of the devastation experienced by this community and an entire generation.

After Silence considers complex issues and quiet meditations on queer ephemera, identity, and our evolving relationship to the archive.”

Stellar Projects
1 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002


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