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. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine is Silano’s first artist’s book, and engages with an ambitious accordion-folded format that references Silano’s photo-based installations: two twenty-panel long sequences that can be read as both one continuous collage and a sequence of individual images. This unique and ambitious book design was exhibited in 2022 as part of the ICP's exhibition A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload.
Loose Joints Publishing, 2021
40 pages, 40 colour plates, 200 × 250 mm
Trimmed hardcover with continuous leporello binding
Interview by José Diaz with the artist
Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints Studio
ISBN 978-1-912719-24-2
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