Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency: An Iconic Multimedia Photography Exhibition

This exhibition features Nan Goldin's iconic multimedia installation 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,' originally conceived as a slideshow. It documents Goldin's personal experiences within the emerging New Wave and Post-Punk scenes of late 1970s and early 1980s New York, focusing on her engagement with the queer community.

The exhibition 'Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' presents the artist's groundbreaking multimedia installation, which was initially created as a slideshow accompanied by music from artists such as the Velvet Underground, James Brown, and Nina Simone. The work is a deeply personal record of Nan Goldin's experiences in the vibrant New York scenes of the late 1970s and early 1980s, capturing her immersion in the emerging New Wave and Post-Punk movements and her profound connection with the queer community. Goldin's photographs from this period are particularly poignant given their creation before and during the devastating AIDS crisis. The series' title is drawn from Bertolt Brecht's 'Threepenny Opera,' a critique of capitalist society. The installation serves as an intimate visual diary of Goldin's "extended family," becoming an iconic documentary record of New York's subculture and LGBT+ community during a transformative and challenging era. The page also notes that this installation is part of the larger exhibition 'BOHEMIA: History of an Idea, 1950–2000.'

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