Nan Goldin's art evokes what personal memory fails to preserve - a person's glance, the texture of skin, or the feel of flesh. At the same time, her art visualizes what characterizes personal memory and distinguishes it from the collective - the way we have of 'filing away' life in idiosyncratic fashion, like a fluid and changing universe of traces and details, and without objective relationships of scale among the various memories. Goldin wants to remember her personal life in every detail; people encountered, experiences shared, emotions felt, relationships that endure over time.