Pacifico Silano is a lens-based appropriation artist who explores print culture, image circulation, and questions of LGBT+ identity. His work is entirely composed of repurposed fragments from gay pornographic magazines from the 1970s and 80s—an era connecting the progressive legacies of the sexual revolution with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis. After rephotographing sections of the magazines, Silano assembles his new images into a range of seductive installations that often reference the materiality of the publications themselves, honing in on stapled centerfolds, torn sheets, or faded pages weathered by time. By contrasting familiar visual signifiers of archetypal masculinity with more romantic glimpses of overlooked tenderness, Silano points to the tensions that underlie his source material—between harshness and softness, joy and melancholy, and the liberation of gay communities and their enduring adherence to social norms.