As his new exhibition opens at Soft Opening in London, we give you a five-point guide to the erotically charged, subculture-obsessed work of American artist Dean Sameshima
5. His art is always evolving One of the things that makes Sameshima’s work so compelling is his refusal to fall into a single formal box. The photographs of Being Alone are so formally different from his “documentary paintings” in his 647 series, and yet they share a common ground; a desire to understand not just in capturing the things that we remember, but also capturing things we might forget.
Sameshima admits to struggling with “artistic monogamy” early in his career, although now he’s more than willing to admit that “not every idea can be expressed through photography.” The evolution of Sameshima’s work is rooted in the importance of preserving history and knowledge. He’s forthright about this, saying that coming of age in the 80s was “an important time and a very scary time for a young gay man.
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