The Huffington Post: Why are these posters so important?
Joan Saab: The posters are important because they are a record of attitudes towards not just AIDS, but also illness, gender and sex, over time and space. They provide access to a past that's often overlooked and a way of making sense of history by visualizing it. In this way, they function as public art. People often think of public art as being something that's abstract or impenetrable or something that's sort of imposed upon them.
I think it's important and interesting to look at more ephemeral types of things that encourage engagement. For me, these posters work in that way.
They're fairly inexpensive. You can plaster them all over. If somebody takes them down, you can put them back up. You can change them. You can add to them. They're a very effective way of grabbing people's eyes. We're very used to posters because we live in a world that's saturated with advertisements and images that are trying to sell us something.
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