Photographer Nan Goldin became addicted to OxyContin after it was prescribed for an injury; a new movie shows her quest to hold the corporation behind the US opioid crisis accountable.
abc.net.au/news/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-review-nan-goldin-sacklers/102060128"Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together," photographer Nan Goldin writes in the introduction to the 1996 edition of her seminal monograph The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally published in 1986.
By the time of the book's publication, Goldin had been exhibiting The Ballad for years in the form of a constantly evolving slide show set to music, and she would continue to do so long after – eventually going from underground clubs and cinemas to top-tier galleries and museums. Goldin became addicted to the OxyContin she was originally prescribed for the tendinitis in her wrist. She turned to the black market when she could no longer wrangle scripts, before eventually working up the courage to check herself into rehab in 2017, well aware that the level of care she was able to pay for is beyond the means of most.
Poitras's documentary, which won top prize at the 2022 Venice Film Festival , might therefore be thought of as a "ballad of chemical dependency".
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