“David had this concept that he called the pre-invented world, where he felt that you were born into this pre-invented structure that you’re forced to fit into, and sometimes in a brutal way. …I think that David found a new way to channel his rage, and that when it first started coming up, it was really about what he had been through as a kid. And it was personal.” —Cynthia Carr
The highly anticipated survey, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on July 13, 2018 and will remain on view through September 30, 2018. In this video, Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012) discusses the work of Wojnarowicz that was included in the Whitney’s 2013 group exhibition I, YOU, WE.