Daniel Weil has created an interactive public exhibition for HIV charity Body & Soul’s award-winning, Life In My Shoes youth campaign.
‘Life in my Shoes’ is a multi-platform campaign that challenges the fear and misunderstanding that surrounds HIV. The campaign highlights the terrible isolation faced by young people with HIV with bold and anonymous silhouetted portraits of HIV+ teens, created by photographers Rankin and Suki Dhanda.
Weil took the images and drew upon the principle of human curiosity to create five four-sided installations that are currently being exhibited in London’s South Bank Riverside Walk. Each installation features four large silhouettes, each accompanied by a small peephole and with no other information at all on the exterior.
When pedestrians look through a peephole, they read a moving narrative from a teen living with HIV explaining the terrible stigma they face and why they have no choice but to keep their HIV a secret. This experience helps to create social awareness into the lives of young people living with HIV, a necessary step towards a greater understanding of difference and social responsibility.