Untransmittable#2

Prezista, Prezcobix, Delstrigo, and more—crucial for HIV management. Despite medical strides, many rely on pills. Kairon Liu's self-portrait with surplus antiretrovirals highlights the complex link between HIV, medication, social duty, and identity.

Prezista, Prezcobix, Delstrigo, Dovato, Stocrit, Symtuza, Odefsey, Ritonavir, Biktarvy, Viread, Combivir, Truvada, Atripla, Reyataz, Complera, Genvoya, Tivicay, Triumeq, Kaletra, Isentress, Viramune, Kivexa, Edurant, 3TC and their generics ... 

While medical science tries to find an ideal way to erase the Human Immunodeficiency Virus from the human body, millions of affected people continue to depend on pills from different generations and formulations. The human rights movement teaches the public to see through differences, but many of those living with HIV remain unable to embrace their own challenged identity. 

In this work, the artist Kairon Liu(Ren-Kai, Liu) collects surplus/discarded antiretroviral drugs from the HIV community in Taiwan to narrate the landscape between people living with the virus, medications, social responsibility, and themselves.