Behind the Walls of Nan Goldin’s Last Retrospective
A hand in the crowd is raised, and amongst the questions being asked, a simple statement is made: ‘Often, when we begin looking into photography, there are a few photographers that we state are our favourites, which, over time, we realise aren’t so great as we first imagined. Nan Goldin is not one of those photographers.’
Nan Goldin has exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam twice before, once in a slide show performance in the late 1980s and then in a solo exhibition in 1997. Now, she has returned for a third time to present a retrospective of her work, which she insinuates will probably be her last.
In a panel discussion for the opening of This Will Not End Well, Nan explained that the exhibition title is an ironic statement about mortality, which she believes is a joke that she’s not sure everyone quite gets.