Five years after its original publication, Silano's sculptural, accordion-folded meditation on queer loss, longing and melancholy returns to print.

I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine is Pacifico Silano’s first artist’s book. American conceptual artist Pacifico Silano’s 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.

40pp, 40 colour plates, 200 x 250 mm
Trimmed hardcover with continuous leporello binding
Interview by José Diaz with the artist
Published by Loose Joints
ISBN 978-1-912719-24-2