Cou­su pour toi by MA­THI­AS HOWALD

In 1994, while the AIDS epidemic was raging and he was still a young teenager, Mathias Howald came across a television documentary about the AIDS epidemic. dedicated to to « patchworks of names » : rectangles made from scraps of fabric that the relatives of the victims sew to illustrate and honor the memory of their deaths. For the young man, it is a shock: the beauty of of this ritual, its symbolic and political value mark it Never.

Years later, he wants to tell this story: his own, but also that of the activists who fought against it. so that silence does not cover lives cut down by illness.

Cousu pour toi tells how AIDS has shaped life. identities, aspirations – how, in short, it came to be woven into the fabric of our lives.