October 8, 2025 – 6:30 p.m.
Sul filo della lama. Memorie della disintegrazione
David Wojnarowicz, translated by Chiara Correndo
In conversation with Enrico Mura, researcher
With remarks by Simone Sanna Venerdini, President of the Sardinian Homosexual Movement

In this urgent and intense memoir, David Wojnarowicz offers a violent and kaleidoscopic snapshot of the spread of HIV in America and of what it meant to be gay in the bigoted, Reagan-era society of the 1980s—a world dominated by the heteronormative ideal of the “happy little family,” where the voices of those living on the margins were repressed through laws, court rulings, arrests, and beatings.

Sul filo della lama is an acid trip through pain, a drunken night in a Hudson dive bar, a furious road trip through the dust of the American Dream. It unfolds through a constellation of chapters that alternate between the dreamlike and the fiercely political, the product of a life dedicated to fighting for the right to health, to accurate information, and to love beyond all social constraints. A work of skin-deep intensity.

Bio:
David Wojnarowicz, gay rights and HIV/AIDS activist, was one of the most powerful and incendiary voices of New York’s vibrant 1980s art scene. Born in 1954 in Red Bank, New Jersey, Wojnarowicz endured a childhood marked by abuse and hardship. The violence of those early years—and his deep physical and spiritual connection with an entire cosmos of “outcasts”—allowed him to develop a particularly vivid and profound reflection on solitude, love, and the beauty of difference.

A photographer, performer, visual artist, and author of several short films and books, Wojnarowicz was a prolific, multifaceted artist whose socially charged works have been exhibited in prestigious international institutions including the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the MoMA in New York. Wojnarowicz died in New York in 1992 from AIDS-related complications at the age of just 37.