Going Viral is the name of the first exhibition cycle after my diagnosis. It explores the violent changes that occurred after my diagnosis; reflecting on the initial emotional and personal challenges spanning over the first two years after my infection. By using abstracted photography and installations, I engage the viewer in showing what an HIV infection feels like; What goes on in the mind, how does one perceive the body and how does the perception of the self change? From feeling poisonous, and being plagued by self-doubt and self-loathing, to reflecting on my own behaviour in the past, burdened by regret. By splitting up the themes into chapters, I try to draw the audience into the contradictions I had to challenge.
