The unflinching gaze of Nan Goldin, ABR Arts
‘This kind of truth is usually hidden,’ says curator Anne O’Hehir, gesturing towards dark glasses and concealer makeup. ‘But Goldin puts on the lippy and gets out the camera.’ It was ground-breaking. ‘That kind of imagery was not seen at the time,’ Goldin says of her self-portrait Nan after being battered (1984) in a 2020 interview in Aperture magazine. Women from all over America and Europe came to her and told her their stories.