October 19, 2001
Interesting online version of Iranian/German photographer Ashkan Sahihi's The Drug Series exhibition, which I saw at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center a few months ago. The exhibit was made up of large-scale portrait photographs featuring the faces of people on a specific drug they had never done before. Sahihi had a nurse present, and the subject were not allowed to leave the chair they were sitting in. Unlike the museum exhibit, the online version includes Sahihi's notes, such as: "CRACK: Side effects: this was a scary one. She showed up to the shoot a bit nervous but the more she smoked the more normal she got. Then she kept smoking more. I had to stop her at one point because I was getting worried. Fucked up for: twenty minutes, off and on."
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