Sam Contis: Moving Landscape

ABOUT THE EVENT

In an Australian first, AGWA presents Sam Contis: Moving Landscape, an exhibition by internationally acclaimed US artist Sam Contis.

This stunning exhibition brings together three main bodies of work – Deep Springs, Overpass, and Cross Country – giving us a view of the artist’s practice over twelve years and 85 works.

Sam Contis is one of the most dynamic US photographers working in our contemporary moment, whose work explores the construction of place and self. Shifting between black & white and colour, and large- and intimately-scaled views, she builds a new terrain out of multiple fragments and perspectives, showing us different ways of seeing and experiencing the body and its environment.

We are introduced to Sam Contis’s practice, in this exhibition, through her deep understanding of photography’s histories, and her collaborative process. The three series unfold across distinct landscapes, each offering a careful view into the long and complicated relationship that photography holds with human attachments to place.

Addressing the history of photography and film, Contis critically examines the ways in which images have perpetuated ideas of landscape, body and gender. Her work allows us to re-envision what we think we know about ourselves and our environment, leading us towards alternative possibilities of experience.