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Sam Contis: Overpass By Sam Contis

Sam Contis: Overpass by Sam Contis


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Sam Contis: Overpass Summary

Sam Contis: Overpass by Sam Contis

Overpass is about what it means to move through the landscape. Walking along a vast network of centuries-old footpaths through the English countryside, artist Sam Contis focuses on stiles, the simple structures that offer a means of passage over walls and fences and allow public access through privately owned land. In her immersive sequences of black-and-white photographs, they become repeating sculptural forms in the landscape, invitations to free movement on one hand and a reminder of the history of enclosure on the other. Made from wood and stone, each unique, they appear as markers pointing the way forward, or decaying and half-hidden by the undergrowth. An essay by writer Daisy Hildyard contextualizes this body of work within histories of the British landscape and contemporary ecological discourses. In an age of rising nationalism and a renewed insistence on borders, Overpass invites us to reflect on how we cross boundaries, who owns space, and the ways we have shaped the natural environment and how we might shape it in the future.

About Sam Contis

Sam Contis (b. 1982) lives in California. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Barbican Centre, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Carre d'Art, Nimes; and MoMA, New York. She is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of Deep Springs (2017) and Day Sleeper (2020). Daisy Hildyard (b. 1984) is author of two novels-Emergency (2022) and Hunters in the Snow (2013)-and one work of nonfiction, The Second Body (2017). She lives in North Yorkshire.

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NGR9781597115391
9781597115391
1597115398
Sam Contis: Overpass by Sam Contis
New
Paperback
Aperture
2022-11-17
192
Winner of Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists 2017 (United States) Winner of Individual Photographer's Fellowship 2016 (United States)
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