The RISD Museum holds a photograph and a screenprint by David Wojnarowicz in their collection.
David’s screen print on vellum, Democracy at Work, 1989-1991, from YOUR HOUSE IS MINE by Bullet House, was displayed in the RISD Museum exhibition Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability in 2022.
RISD Museum curators write: “This print by artist David Wojnarowicz reminds us that illness and disability intersect with other systemic oppressions. Wojnarowicz made this strongly anti-fascist image just a few months before he died of AIDS-related complications. Around that same time, he wrote, “We are living in a society that has accelerated to such a point that the person to press the button that releases warheads, the person who determines whether some of us have the rights to abortion, the person who determines whether men can love men or women can love women or whether I should have to die of lack of access to healthcare because I’m Black or Hispanic or poor + white or Native American-that person no longer has to go to the scene of the crime to do the dirty work. The people making these determinations that affect our bodies and minds need only to do the legislative paperwork.”
Their collection also holds the photograph Untitled (Violence), 1988-1989 from the Ant Series. Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.
RISD Museum’s collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design, 84,711 of which are available online.
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