The series “Scopophilia”, including the work “Hair” was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in 2014. The Greek term scopophilia literally means “love of looking,” but also refers to the erotic pleasure derived from gazing at images of the body. Goldin’s “Scopophilia” is both a slideshow and a photographic series, begun in 2010 when she was given private access to the Musée du Louvre every Tuesday, while the museum was closed to the public. During these privileged sojourns, she wandered and photographed freely throughout the museum’s renowned collections of painting and sculpture. Mixing impressions of paintings and sculptures in the Louvre collections with her own images dating back to the late 1970s, the series constructs a lively dialogue between human subjects past and present.

Goldin's experiences at the Louvre confirmed that her artistic obsessions, such as sex, violence, rapture, despair and the mutability of gender, stem from deep imaginative currents in Western art history, mythology and religious iconography.