Vanishing Intimacies: Surrounding Nan Goldin
Curated by Nuria Enguita
Vanishing Intimacies: Surrounding Nan Goldin has as its starting point the work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin, a visual image that accounts for life, a life that names itself, a series that gives shape to a space and to an intimate time, a public diary that undoes the present, that shows the thickness of the relationships and bonds through which life simultaneously passes and is lived. As opposed to stereotypical ideas of privacy, identity, or visibility, the intimacy we appeal to here has more to do with forms of experience and the challenges of narration, with the unfinished and the multiple, with what is at the beginning of any negotiation and not can be reduced to law. Intimacy is understood as the action of the body on the body, in space and time, in gestures and language, in affections, emotions and memory.