The border control agent at the airport was bemused when I said I was just visiting Sweden for the day. “We're visiting a gallery,” myself and my travelling companion, Sophie Monks Kaufman, explained. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm is the current home of ‘This Will Not End Well,’ a crash course in Nan Goldin, and a rare chance to see her work exhibited in the artist’s preferred format: the slideshow. Set in a single large hall, the exhibition is described as a “village” – there are six small black tents, dark inside, save for the glow of the slide projector. Snippets of music composed by Mica Levi, or rock songs by the likes of Petula Clark, or a children’s choir singing Space Oddity, play over the images. The intimacy of…
