Michele Bertolino, Valeria Calvino, Daniele Calzavara, Sandra Cane, Stefano Collicelli, Cagol, Giulia Sbaffi, Luca Scarlini, Luca Starita, Giulia Zompa, Luciano Bartolini, Dario Bellezza, Massimiliano Chiamenti, Nino Gennaro, La Nina, Ottavio Mai, Marco Sanna, Giovanni Testori, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Bruno Zanichelli

Vivono. Arte e Affetti, HIV-AIDS in Italia. 1982-1996

€ 62.00

This editorial project consists of two interconnected volumes: a Reader that brings together research materials and texts, and a visual Archive that assembles documents, images, and testimonies.

The Archive includes medical records, artists’ statements, journalistic articles, and selected archival materials that were also presented in the exhibition.

The publication is built from the voices, images, and lived experiences of those who chose to share their stories and knowledge. Conceived as a collective endeavor, it represents a first, necessarily partial and unfinished attempt to outline the history of the HIV–AIDS epidemic in Italy through the artworks produced in the country during that period. Rather than offering a linear or complete narrative, the project acknowledges gaps, contradictions, and discontinuities.

Both the exhibition and the publication emerged from extended conversations, abrupt shifts, and unforeseen divergences. They do not propose reconciliation or closure; the temporalities of HIV–AIDS remain uneven and unresolved, continuing to unfold differently across contexts and geographies.