She made her name shooting addicts and drag queens. Now the photographer is celebrating the outsider she has worshipped since her teens,in a exhibit that also features work by Steve McQueen and Ai WeiweiArtangel’s Inside: a star-studded tribute walk on the Wilde sideNan Goldin is guiding me though her unlikely exhibition space in Reading prison, which comprises a row of cells on C Wing, or close to where,in the summer of 1895, Oscar Wilde began a two-year sentence for extreme indecency following the failure of his libel case against the Marquis of Queensbury. Goldin discovered the writer at the age of 15 and he became a huge influence on her. “What I understood him to be saying is that you can be who you pretend to be, and ” she says. “You can remake yourself totally. That idea drove my desire to create myself though my art.” Related: Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison review – a star-studded tribute to Oscar Wilde Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com