Sam Evans is a visual artist specialising in photography, video and installation. She was born in the Harz Mountains, Germany in 1995 and studied Fine Arts and Art Education at HBK Braunschweig and Kyoto Seika University. She doesn't use photography to show the world as it is, but to find a place where she can exist within it.

 

Her practice explores the intersection of organic interiority, memory, and the natural world, often emerging from the landscapes of her upbringing in Harz Forest Mountains. Through a lens of queerness and neurodivergence, Evans investigates the concept of intimate spaces, and in them the boundaries between the self and the environment.

 

Her work translates human experiences of identity and vulnerability into the language of folklore as well as biological flora and fauna. Drawing from her own perspective, she often references fictional realities where the familiar meets the otherworldly.

 

In her process, Evans treats the photograph as a physical body, experimenting with analogue techniques and hand-coloring to expand the medium beyond its representative function.

 

She creates structures within her imagery, navigating the tension between the need for order and the radical acceptance of organic chaos and decay. Her work is a search for solace and connection, ruminating on the transformation of the self within this world.