Nan Goldin's Gagosian Exhibition Features New Video Works and Polyptychs

Nan Goldin's first solo exhibition at Gagosian's Chelsea location occupies the entire gallery space with recent archival pigment prints. Two black pavilions at the center house new video installations: You Never Did Anything Wrong and Stendhal Syndrome. The artist innovates by presenting almost exclusively polyptychs that juxtapose forms and figures of pathos, drawing parallels to Aby Warburg's method of assembling art historical images to show formal resurgences across time. Goldin applies this approach using her own photographs rather than archival images. The exhibition runs until October 19, 2024 at Gagosian West 21st Street in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. The Stendhal Syndrome video explores the persistence of pathos figures through time, referencing the psychosomatic condition described in the press release. A critical note mentions disappointment with the digital presentation of the slideshow, contrasting it with the transparency and color glazes of earlier slide projections like The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1982-1995). The review specifically boycotts viewing You Never Did Anything Wrong, described as Goldin's first abstract film in 16 mm and Super 8, due to the digital presentation. Works include Eternal Spring, Rodin (2024) and Til the end of time (2011), both archival pigment prints in limited editions.