Nan Goldin’s photographs are as touching and present today as they were thirty years ago. Their fascination does not necessarily stem from their subject matter—oscillating between glamour and the gutter, with moments of euphoria and happiness—but from their radical intimacy. Goldin approaches only those who are close to her with her camera, thus sensitively capturing identity, sexuality, desire, violence, sickness and mourning. She does not just empathize with the hardships and pleasures of her friends and family, but is herself therein an essential part. Her immediate photographs are considered as an authentic image of her living environment. At the same time Goldin is still breaching taboos with her highly politically diary. C/O Berlin presents four of Nan Goldin’s slideshows: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, All By Myself, Heartbeat, The Other Side. These slide series are highly condensed stories and memories arranged and set to music compiled by Nan Goldin herself – DON’T MISS!
Nan Goldin: Poste Restante
10.10. – 6.12.2009
C/O Berlin – International Forum For Visual Dialogues
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36
10117 Berlin
Photography by Nan Goldin
