US photographer Sam Contis is known for works exploring the construction of place and self. Here, in an Australian first, three main bodies of work are presented – Cross Country, Deep Springs, and Overpass – giving insight into Contis’ practice over twelve years and eighty-five works.
Shifting between large- and intimately-scaled views, black and white and colour, Contis builds new terrain out of multiple fragments and perspectives – showing us different ways of experiencing and seeing the body and its environment, and the complicated relationship photography holds with human attachments to place.
Sam Contis, Clover, 2019/2021, silver gelatin print, 101.6 × 152.4cm (image). © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Sam Contis, Dust in the Road, 2014, silver gelatin print, 86.4 × 106.7cm (image), 94 × 114.3cm (paper), 101.6 × 121.9cm (frame) overall dimensions. © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
31 May to 28 September 2025
Perth
