The Survival of the Innocents

In commemoration of Visual AIDS’ A Day With(out) Art, Paul Pfeiffer has created a mixed media installation in which Pfeiffer re-interprets Christian myths as an allegory about the AIDS crisis. Invoking _virinas_—traditional Philippino religious statues—Pfeiffer hopes to “draw the viewer into a meditation on the genocidal proportions of political indifference, racism, sexism, and homophobia in the AIDS crisis.” Pfeiffer explains, “The statues refer not only to physical survivors, but to emotional and spiritual survivors as well…What one encounters upon looking closer is a personal vow for the transformation of culture in the Age of AIDS.”

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