F.R. DAVID
SPRING 2019
BLACK SUN

Edited by Will Holder,
Krist Gruijthuijsen
Published by uh books &
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
English
264 pages
12 x 19 cm
Softcover
ISBN 9780995713376

Price: 54 lei


F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises.

The issue departs from Wojnarowicz’s grief at the loss of loved ones during the 1980s AIDS crisis, and anger at the US government for their willful neglect of this loss. The issue assembles a chorus of various gendered and sexual positions, all seeking support, love and intimacy in linguistic, architectural and bodily structures, all the while under threat of collapse. These voices are threaded together with excerpts from Julia Kristeva’s white, feminist, psychoanalytical, semiotic Black Sun. Depression and Melancholia (1992).