| David Wojnarowicz Where I'll Go After I'm Gone 1988-1989 Gelatin silver prints, acrylic, spray paint, and collage on Masonite 45 x 64 ins Courtesy the artistĘs estate and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York LL/33405 David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), who died of AIDS in 1992, interwove his life and work to wrestle with issues of identity, sexuality, and the fragility of life. In opposition to Mapplethorpe, Wojnarowicz delivered a dark vision of physical decline and death. Entirely self-taught, Wojnarowicz relied on collage, paint, and text to challenge what he called the "pre-invented existence" that discriminates and imposes a power structure on people based on ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual preference.
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