Sunset

2017

Rotating דlide projector, photographs from the sunset collection.

“Sunsets” unfolds dozens of sunset photographs taken by the artist over the years, since the

1990s to this day. Goldvicht began taking the pictures as a teenager, upon receiving her first

camera; this may account for the obsessive attachment to this sentimental subject matter,

sometimes associated with teenage romance. First shot on film and later progressing to digital

formats, the dozens of photographs in the series formed a rich depository of sunsets – an

overly-banal image to begin with, that, once repeated on end, is further emptied of the

exalted beauty it supposedly possesses.

A cross between routine and ritual, the repeated iterations of “Sunsets” gradually become a

kind of protective layer, an impenetrable envelope whose blinding – if tacky – beauty, the kind

that embodies the clichéd promise for happiness and unending love, seems to shield one from

the loneliness and pain lurking beyond the threshold of childhood, to safeguard the promise

for a better future, the hopes and dreams of youth. Not originally intended to be viewed by

others, this depository of images is exposed in all its elusive pathos. The serial presentation of

this private collection, while touching on the intimate longings of a girl coming of age, likewise

marks the moment of disillusionment.

For exhibition catalogue “An Ocean Within An Ocean”, 2017