Pacifico Silano – I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine Documentary Centre Culturel Suisse

Centre Culturel Suisse

Cover artwork: Jatinder Singh Durhailay

Their chromatic scale recreate a world where civilization gradually disappears to leave room to a purely metaphysical space

Printed swiss-bound softcover with flaps

Pacifico Silano – I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine Documentary Centre Culturel SuisseAmerican 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 artist's uncle at the height of the epidemic. I Wish I Never Saw the