MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS:

Sam Contis

works from the series

Overpass

have been acquired by

The Carnegie Museum of Art

Pittsburgh, PA

(purchase with funds provided by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation)

and

The Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

(purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group at the V&A)

These are quiet places, but their quietness is suggestive. The worn paths and spaces between walls trace presence. The vegetation is lush, tangled, profuse. Everything leans into everything else, germinating, growing, subsiding, collapsing, and then regenerating.

– Daisy Hildyard, from Overpass

UPCOMING EXHIBITION:

Sam Contis

Overpass

October 27 - December 16, 2023

at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

BOOK: Overpass 

published by aperture

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.

Photographs by Sam Contis.

Text by Daisy Hildyard. Design by Julian Bittiner.

Copies of the book are available at klausgallery.com