Conversation and Book Signing with Sam Contis

Join Aperture and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery for a conversation between artist Sam Contis and designer Julian Bittiner as they discuss their collaboration on Contis’s recent monograph, Overpass (Aperture, 2022), and the accompanying exhibition Overpass, on view through December 16, 2023, at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. The discussion will be followed by a book signing after the event.

In Overpass, Contis walks along a vast network of centuries-old footpaths through the English countryside, focusing on stiles, the simple structures that offer a means of passage over walls and fences and allow public access through privately owned land. 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.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Sam Contis (b. 1982) lives in California. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2008 and BFA from New York University in 2004. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Barbican Centre, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France; and MoMA, New York. She is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of Deep Springs (2017) and Day Sleeper (2020).

Julian Bittiner is an independent designer based in New York. His typographically inflected studio practice centers around an interest in formal contrasts and contradictions, between typologies and the “singularity of things,” professionalism and amateurism, systems and the ad hoc. He received a BFA in fine art from ArtCenter College of Design and an MFA in graphic design from Yale School of Art.

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Image: Image from Sam Contis: Overpass (Aperture, 2022). © 2022 Sam Contis

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