Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress
Hunter Reynolds
Photo © 1994 Tom Brazil
Hunter Reynolds' sister has put up a web page:
Hunter Reynolds Fund. Please help if you can. He needs help now.
I need your help and prayers right now for my brother Hunter. He's lived with HIV for 21 years, and now, it has claimed his right hand is paralyzed. His benefits have run out and he is sick. He is an amazing artist and writer, and this is devastating him. Please send him your positive thoughts and prayers and if you can help in anyway, our family will be forever grateful.
Hunter's voice is always proactive and positive. His AIDS Memorial Dress is amazing. I'm not sure this review is so wonderful...but it's here nonetheless.
What Hunter needs right now is love, financial support, hopes & prayers.
If you'd like to help -
- or if you would like to send a card, present or another form of donation to Hunter, please e-mail me, [email protected] and I will forward his address to you. He needs his friends now more than ever.
June 7 - July 1, 1994
45 Greene Street
Photo © 1994 Tom Brazil
via Creative Time:
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress was an elegant sculpture and performance piece that directly confronted the losses and emotions felt by those effected by AIDS and HIV. Hunter Reynolds appeared in the guise of alter ego Patina du Prey wearing the Memorial Dress, which was printed with 25,000 names of people who died of AIDS. The dress, a site for mourning and a healing vehicle, is a vessel continuously filled and emptied by the artist's body, which thus becomes a transgendered figure of hope. Viewers were invited to submit names to be added to the dress. This unique project was presented during the 25th Anniversary of Stonewall and produced in collaboration with The Contemporary Art Institute of New York.
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