Currently on display at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston as part of an exhibit on queer identity, Daniel Goldstein’s Icarian series is astounding for its media: leather and sweat.
This is leather that covered the equipment of his 1980s and 1990s San Francisco gym. This is sweat from gay, HIV+ men. Rep after rep by homos working out hard and purposefully created accidental impressions on the leather that many have compared to the Shroud of Turin. Except Jesus didn’t really think about his glutes and abs as much as these queens.
Goldstein was one of those men, and an isolated, rare survivor from the era before better meds.
What are we doing to leave our mark without knowing it? What will future homosexual archaeologists say of our cum rags and steam rooms and Robyn remix mp3s?
[via Peep]
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