Pacifico Silano - Shadow Cast

Shadow Cast by Pacifico Silano

24 January – 01 May 2025

Silano's reworking of queer archives enters a darkened space of reflection in his haunting typologies of obscured men, presented as a handmade limited oversized artist's book.

Shadow Cast is the latest handmade, limited edition book by lens-based artist Pacifico Silano. Known for his practice of excavating melancholy, tension, emotion, and friction from vintage gay pornography, Silano continues his exploration of the dark interior of queer identity through this evocative work.

Following his Aperture-nominated I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine, Shadow Cast shifts to gritty, life-size headshots obscured through rasterization and printing. His reframing gestures comment on marginality, with subjects literally in the shadows, evoking hidden desires.

Printed entirely on risograph, this oversized artist’s book is corporeal in scale, hand stab-stitched with a thick PVC cover. Limited to 500 signed copies, it transforms Silano’s ephemeral approach into an experimental publishing object.