Nan Goldin. Stendhal Syndrome

Stendhal Syndrome takes the form of a slideshow that brings into dialogue masterpieces of classical art, the Renaissance and the Baroque with portraits of Nan Goldin's (born 1953) loved ones and lovers. Made during her visits to the greatest museums in the world, these images abolish the boundaries between art history and intimate experience, bringing mythological figures and masterpieces of the past into dialogue with the community surrounding the artist. Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, the work is carried by the artist's own voice, an original composition by Soundwalk Collective and a musical creation by Mica Levi. Through this meditation on love, loss and memory, the work affirms the power of images to preserve beings, to bring the living into dialogue with the past, and to inscribe the most personal stories in a universal memory.