Dean Sameshima
being alone (color), 2024
£1,140
A limited edition photographic print exclusive to House of Voltaire, signed and numbered by the artist on the reverse
Edition Size
15
Dimensions
29.7 x 42 cm
Finishing
Archival print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
The price of the edition increases as it sells out
Courtesy the artist and Soft Opening, London
About The Artwork
Focusing on themes of concealment, queer spaces and voyeurism, Dean Sameshima's series 'being alone' comprises 25 black and white photographs of lone audience members in a Berlin porn cinema. The long exposure bleaches the screen and renders the performers anonymous, providing safety for both them, and the unidentified solitary viewer with their back to the camera. In this special limited edition for House of Voltaire, Sameshima expands the series to include its first colour photographic print that brings more of the on-screen event into focus.
About Dean Sameshima
Dean Sameshima (b. 1971, Torrance, CA) lives and works in Berlin. Some of Sameshima's best known documentations of marginalised and queer subcultures include photographs of glory holes in public bathrooms, titled 'Erdbeermund', and a series of screen printed t-shirts featuring fragments of esoteric gay culture, which have gained a cult following.
In 2024 Sameshima participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Other exhibitions include being alone at Soft Opening, London (2024); Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World at California Museum of Photography, Riverside (2024); Scratching at the Moon at ICA, Los Angeles (2024); Revolt of the Body at Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2023); being alone at Queer Thoughts, New York (2023); Radical Perverts: Ecstasy and Activism in Queer Public Space at Museum of Sex, New York (2023); Politiken der Berührung (Politics of Touch) at Amtsalon, Berlin (2023); Kino Roland at Kino Roland, Zurich (2022) and Evidence: Selections from the Permanent Collection at MOCA, Los Angeles (2021).
Sameshima is in the permanent collections of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and was the 2022 recipient of The Artist Acquisition Club award.