Nan Goldin has spent 50 years photographing people. But her new film work turns away from them entirely, to focus on nature and animals

A close-up of a cat's face lit in warm red and green tones, its yellow eyes staring directly at the camera.

You Never Did Anything Wrong opens at the Hayward Gallery on November 24 this year, running until March 7 2027. It's Goldin's first UK institutional show since 2002, and as we previously reported, sees her turning her lens on classical art and sculpture. That in itself is an expected pivot for an artist best known for her human studies. But as we've just learned, that's only the half of it.

At the center of the show will be two films, both titled You Never Did Anything Wrong. Part I, shot on 16mm and centred on a solar eclipse, draws on an ancient myth of animals stealing the sun. Part II, made with filmmaker David Sherman, is built from found footage and damaged soundtracks lifted from nature documentaries of the 1960s and 70s, the decades of Goldin's own youth.