Bare Necessities: Fleshing out body politics

11 August 2015 - 02:02
By Rea Khoabane

As a ''genderqueer" artist, Dean Hutton's work explores the way in which we express love for ourselves by using technology. Hutton spent 18 years working as a photojournalist before she devoted herself to becoming an artist. In her latest documentary, Goldendean, she looks at the inequality of nakedness - how it's acceptable for some bodies to appear naked but unacceptable for others - and at how notions of beauty resonate with the beholder.

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