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Psychosexual Thriller dispenses with the notion of the archive as a neutral entity. Pacifico vests the works in the show with his own lived experiences as a teenager from working in his parents’ sex shop (called “Undercover Pleasures”) to losing his uncle to the AIDS crisis and his own experiences as a gay man. In “Turned On”, a veined hand presses against a mirror and creates a double, recalling Mary Harrow’s American Psycho where narcissistic rage lurks beneath a shiny facade. While in “Likeness”, the profiles of two faces are layered in sequence, so alike that they appear superimposed or …