40 years since cases of HIV/AIDS were first identified, David Zwirner gallery in New York and London pays tribute to artists whose lives were cut short by the disease, and the community who endured ostracism and stigma , 1987. From left: Steve Gendon, Mark Aurigemma, Douglas Montgomery, Charles Stinson, Frank O’Dowd, Avram Finkelstein.
‘More Life’ is the brainchild of the gallery’s senior director Robert Goff, director Thor Shannon, and associate director Alec Smith, who wished to ‘highlight the careers of lesser-known but incredibly talented artists lost to AIDS’. Likewise, Finkelstein hopes that the shows will impress on a younger generation to think of the early days of HIV and AIDS asstory: ‘This story belongs to all of us and to those not born yet, just like every other gesture of radical queer resistance.’