Artist field note

Nan Goldin

A life photographed from inside it.

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1985-

Hundreds of slides make a social world through repetition: love, sex, violence, parties, boredom, grief.

The five in one idea

Goldin replaced photographic distance with participation. The archive matters because she was living inside it.