Light Society (Beijing) is pleased to announce Nan Goldin, the first-ever solo exhibition of the renowned photographer in China. Opening on July 24, 2020, the exhibition will showcase works from the major phases of Goldin’s creative career, including The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The Other Side, and I’ll Be Your Mirror. The Cibachrome prints featured in the exhibition are all originals from the 1980s and the 1990s and will be shown for the first time in China.

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Goldin’s work speaks for a community of people who are scorned, ignored and shunned by the mainstream society. The visceral and unflinchingly emotional images she creates are her personal responses to values that have been rejected. While living among a group of young bohemians who find themselves marginalized by the society, Goldin uses her camera to document the everyday life of the inhabitants of this world, producing high-density images that are detached enough to preserve the necessary degree of objectivity but are also highly engaged, intensely subjective, and extremely intimate. Her work demonstrates the transformation of contemporary documentary photography from “speaking for others” to “speaking for oneself”, thus marking the rise of subjectivity in contemporary documentary photography and making Goldin a forerunner of photography diaries as a genre of its own. 

This exhibition has received generous support from the WestLicht Schauplatz für Fotografie、Blast! Films、Mr.Yan Zhigang、Mr. Jin Hongwei  as well as the artist herself and will run until November 24, 2020. 

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