Nan Goldin: Scopophilia
Renowned photographer Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia exhibition travels to Rome, marking her first major exhibition in the city.
The Greek term scopophilia literally means ‘love of looking’, but also refers to the erotic pleasure derived from gazing at images of the body. Goldin’s Scopophilia is both a slideshow and an ongoing photographic series, which began in 2010 when she was given private access to the Louvre Museum every Tuesday. During these privileged visits, she wandered and photographed freely throughout the museum’s renowned collections of painting and sculpture.
From the thousands of photographs that Goldin took in the Louvre’s collections, she assembled a 25-minute operatic slideshow, in which her highly subjective and enlivening impressions of historical artworks are paired with her own images dating as far back as the late 1970s. The result is a resonant dialogue between human histories past and present.
Scopophilia is on display at Gagosian Gallery, Rome until Saturday 24 May 2014.
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