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Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death), 1989, New York
“I think what I really fear about death is the silencing of my voice. I feel this incredible pressure to leave something of myself behind.”
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Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death), 1989, New York
“I think what I really fear about death is the silencing of my voice. I feel this incredible pressure to leave something of myself behind.”
David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death), Photo by Andreas Sterzing, 1989
David Bowie, New York 1996, © Andreas Sterzing
Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death), New York 1989,
In one of the most striking images of David Wojnarowicz, taken just a few years before he died of AIDS-related illness, the artist, writer and activist is depicted with his mouth sewn shut. The work’s title, Silence = Death, references the slogan from a famous ad campaign started in the mid-1980s which ACT UP, the AIDS activist group Wojnarowicz belonged to, would later adopt as their rallying cry.
Courtesy der Künstler / the artist, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz und / and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York
Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo, The Piers, NYC, 1983
Andreas Sterzing, ‘David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death)’ (1989)