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2025
In a room (a mental prison): the only way out is to enter oneself. Normal Lithium is inspired by bipolar disorder, the loss of self and hope, and the inner search for salvation. Symbols accumulate in a journey to find balance, even as those same symbols wildly invade the image.

1996
This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of the gesture and the distortive effect of the double screen evoke a sinister prior event and a sense panic or fear. Here Nauman continues his ongoing investigation into human psychology and feelings of discomfort. The sense of anxiety is heightened by the echoing sound of the water draining away for the fifty-five-minute duration of the double footage.

2023
"The Strange Case of Normalcy" is a subtle examination of how each of us lives on the edge of normalcy while we construct an illusion of "the normal" by which we define ourselves.