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 GoldinI never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
Nan GoldinMy desire is to preserve the sense of peopleโs lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Nan GoldinI've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
Nan Goldin