Concept

Social isolation

Images

  • A yellow hand holding within its palm, a red and blue huddled figure representing an HIV positive person suffering in isolation; with a description of the social effects of the HIV infection; an advertisement by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • People huddled together within prison walls edged with barbed wire with a lone figure bottom right suggesting the social isolation of someone who has AIDS; an advertisement for the information line for those affected by AIDS in prison by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • Two HIV positive women look over their shoulders to suggest their social isolation while below the same women look forwards to reflect a more positive attitude; an advertisement for the support services offered for HIV positive women by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach and Boek.
  • A swirling crowd of people with the word "isolé" (isolated) typed diagonally across the page, with an extract from the passport dated 16 Dec 1979 bottom right; an analogy to the isolation felt by those with AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Roger Pfund, 1993.
  • A group of men sit and stand with the message: "Gay life. Our life is no longer isolated by AIDS. And yet: gay life is more"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Jörg Reichardt and Detlev Pusch.

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