“Working with objects instead of representations of them, I began to think of the instances in which people are treated as objects. Since the psychopath objectivises people and psychopaths tend to act out the undercurrent of a culture's latent principles, I became interested by extension in the psychopathic imperative of the American opportunist. As an exercise, in some of my pieces I have made an exaggerated occasion of opportunity as an end in itself. This is an attempt to realise psychopathic behaviour and to share my understanding of it with other people.“ — Cady Noland
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An extract from ‘Psychopathology’, read last night by Helen Martin during her conversation with Susanne Pfeffer and Diedrich Diederichsen on Cady Noland’s practice, specifically the 2018 survey exhibition at MMK, which Pfeffer curated with Noland’s participation.
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Images: Cady Noland, Installation views, July 7 - August 25, 1990, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica (cropped)
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