« In her major and international retrospective, Nan Goldin reconfigured her work for an exhibition in six unique buildings designed by the architect Hala Wardé. Each building is designed in response to the specific piece. Together they constitute a village. “I have always wanted to be a filmmaker. My slideshows are films made up of stills,” says Nan Goldin.

New Narrativity for Photography. With the slide-show, accompanied by music tubes chosen by the artist, Nan Goldin has offered and invented a new narrativity for the photography. Around 1980 Goldin began presenting her slideshows in various clubs and public venues in New York, as well as at underground cinemas and film festivals in Europe. She updated and reedited her slideshow every time and used multiple projectors, which she operated against the background of an eclectic soundtrack. Goldin’s ability to revisit these slideshows has since formed the core of her artistic practice. Over the past 40 years Goldin has produced a dozen different slideshows – from portraits of her friends to accounts of traumatic family events. Since then, she has added elements into her works such as moving images, voices and archival materials. » Jean-Max Colard

‘THIS WILL NOT END WELL’

Selected by Jean-Max Colard

Type: Exhibition

Museum: Pirelli HangarBicocca