After the death of her friend Cookie Müller, the Artist started photographing empty rooms which symbolise both the painful mourning of the loss of friends and the hopeful persistence of their memory. In Empty Rooms, Berlin/Hamburg 1983-1996, 2010 uninhabited rooms are presented as a series of portraits. The photographs were taken in old whorehouses, pensions, or gay bars and they are like the people's faces that Goldin wants to remember, places she became intimate with. Concentrating on atmosphere over narrative, these grids reflect on wide-ranging states of being. Joining her photographs into a moving sequence, she re-animates the memories that continue to elude her.