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desire
journey to desire
fighting amnesia
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM
THE VISUAL AIDS ARCHIVE PROJECT
August 30 - October 17, 1999
Contact Sheet 103
The exhibition is a collection of photographs done by
thirteen photographers diagnosed with the AIDS virus.
Ernesto Pujol was the guest curator for the exhibition
and decided to make the male body the images' unifying
theme. The subject of the construction and deconstruction
of the male body has also been one of the cornerstones
of Pujo's work. Of the photographs he states, "The
images spoke repeatedly about desire, the artists' desires,
the models' desires and, ultimately, my own, elicited
by theirs... The laboratory fact of HIV/AIDS need not
mark, haunt, determine, or define either a life or a
whole body of work, either an individual's or a generation's
entire legacy."
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