I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.
Nan GoldinThe things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
Nan GoldinNo Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
Nan Goldin