Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Is Going on Show

Gagosian is kicking off 2026 by presenting Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in its entirety, to coincide with the photobook’s 40th anniversary. The exhibition will be the first time that all 126 images from the book have been shown in the UK. Created between 1973 and 1986, the photobook, which Goldin described at the time as “the diary I let people read”, is an exploration of gender, intimacy and power, and as well as becoming a defining document of downtown New York at the time, it helped popularise a more candid and personal style of photography.