At the end of 2017, the American Nan Goldin, photographer of the Roaring 1980s and artist celebrated in the greatest museums, embarked on a new fight: activism against the Sackler family, responsible, she says, for the opiate crisis in United States and around the world.
After surviving the ordeal of opiate addiction herself, she decides to use her notoriety in the art world to stand up to those powerful accused of profiting from human suffering.
Along with other artists and activists, Nan Goldin founded the collective PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), which advocates the reduction of health risks and the prevention of overdoses.
PAIN goes after the Sackler family, which has made huge profits from the opiate crisis.
She has already caused the death of
Laura Poitras' film on this Nan Goldin crusade,
All the Beauty and the Spilled Blood,
is perfectly constructed, often through the artist's narrative...
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