"Portrait of the artist as ... well, everybody" · Oct 16, 10:56 AM
From the October 11, 2008 edition of THE GLOBE AND MAIL BOOK REVIEW
Portrait of the artist as … well, everybody
EMIL SHER
“Goldchain’s bridge to the past is unlike any other…Inevitably, portraits are but one piece of a narrative we build to fill the unknown and unknowable landscape of past lives, real or imagined. Langford challenges us to move beyond the present tense as we construct these narratives. “It is not just a matter of ‘Who are these people?’ The real question, bursting the binding of the Goldchain family album, is ‘Who did they dream of becoming? This haunting, unanswerable question frames several portraits, but another runs like a river beneath all of them. Each self-portrait doubles as a mirror for Goldchain and his son to stare into and ask: Who am I? The past is irretrievable but the search for identity remains timeless. I Am My Family is an invitation to reconstruct who we were to better understand who we are, and to consider the price paid when we forget.”
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