INHALEXHALE lightbox

INHALEXHALE lightbox

INHALEXHALE is a lightbox installation that calls us to both individual and communal acts of self-care in response to the crisis of breathlessness and social anxiety experienced by so many during this era of late capitalism, where ecological catastrophe, corruption and police brutality quite literally threatens to rob us of our breath. 

The installation, made from reflective ‘gold’ materials, set to a radial rising from the ground like the rays of the sun, provides a point of focus and reflection for the viewer to remain present, and establish inner calm,  acting as a visual representation of the process of mindful breathing, the rhythm and flow from inhale(to)exhale.

Living breathing inflatable sculptures by Goldendean

Soft Vxnxs @Zeitz MOCCA 2022

As a “Fat Queer White Trans body” in the context of South Africa, artist Dean Hutton questions who or what is entitled to take up space. In doing so, they address the personal and political of hypervisibility: being visible (as a fat, queer, trans body) and invisible, unimportant at the same time (as a fat, queer, trans body). Their Tenderqueer sculptures “soft-radicals” – are round, soft, flexible and inviting. Our society expects fat and messy bodies to turn up traumatized and out of breath and never cheerful, horny, or beaming with a political speech. Soft Vxnxs creates comfort and space for vulnerability. Share your experience with this comfort object! #softvxnxs #goldendean #softradicals

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Soft Vxnxs

Big Fat Light Merqueer giant inflatable soft sculpture at NDSM

  • Big Fat Light MerQueer @NDSM
  • Big Fat Light MerQueer @NDSM Amsterdam 2021
  • Big Fat Light MerQueer @NDSM Amsterdam 2021

Breathe Goldendean at Spier Light Festival

  • Breathe - Light inflatables @Spier Light Festival 2019
  • Breathe - Light inflatables @Spier Light Festival 2019
  • Breathe - Light inflatables @Spier Light Festival 2019

Goldendean’s Soft Vxnxs @ HETHEM, Amsterdam

Goldendean is honoured to present a new work commissioned by HETHEM for Chapter 4OUR: Abundance curated by Simon(e) van Saarloos.

Soft Vxnxs
Large Scale Inflatable gold sculpture with airblower
approx 5m x 4.5m x 2.5m

The Crucible

First presented at the Bag Factory, and then Newtown’s Mary Fitzgerald Square Alex Dodd writes of The Crucible in the Art Times: “The viewer must crouch down and enter through razor wire portals into the smoke- lled interior surrounded by a crucible of projected ames blazing around a small altar on which lies a South African ID book. It’s the closest I’ve come to experiencing what it must have felt like to be a victim of one of the violent attacks on foreigners. Better than reading so many life-sapping newspaper reports… ”