The ballad of Sexual Dependency

On the occasion of the release of Nan Goldin’s film All the beauty and the bloodshed, I offer these drawings made during the screening at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2015, with music by the Tiger Lillies.

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, made between 1979 and 1986, is one of Nan Goldin’s earliest photographic series, but remains today, and rightly so, the best known of all her works. The slide show projected on a large screen is accompanied by the Tiger Lillies. A London musical trio, they are dark, provocative and blasphemous, grimacing with their Brechtian inspiration which fits perfectly with the images. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a masterpiece, an authentic chronicle of modern times.

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Nan Goldin, fotography

The Tiger Lillies
^{Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Jonas Golland}

^{* Source: Philharmonie de Paris
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/spectacle/16677-nan-goldin-tiger-lillies}