“Stendhal Syndrome” in Arles: meeting with Nan Goldin, an artist who remains as militant as ever
Meeting American artist Nan Goldin, renowned for her candid chronicles of her private life, uses her fame to support her activism for Gaza.
Nan Goldin and the PAIN (Pain Addiction Intervention Now) collective in the courtyard of the Louvre in July 2019, calling for the renaming of the museum's Sackler Wing, after patrons involved in the opioid epidemic in the United States. DENIS ALLARD/LEEXTRA VIA OPALE.PHOTO
In Nan Goldin's Parisian living room, stretched out between statues of Saint Barbara and a tired red sofa, a majestic lion stands guard. "I thought about calling him Endymion, but it's too pretentious," confides the photographer, who since 2010 has divided her time between the French capital and New York . "If you have an idea to suggest to me..." In "Metamorphoses," Ovid recounts the impossible love between Endymion, a charming shepherd, and Diana, the goddess of the Hunt. Madly in love with the young mortal, she begs her father Zeus to plunge her beloved into an eternal sleep in order to preserve his beauty. Nan Goldin's stuffed lion also seems to be asleep forever. To tickle his mane...
Diana and Endymion, Echo and Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea… The myths recounted by the Latin poet form the narrative framework of the exhibition “Stendhal Syndrome” that the famous American artist is presenting this summer at the Rencontres d'Arles. This ode to this “feeling of ecstasy in the face of beauty” takes the…
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