Somerset House Studios resident

Sam Williams

Through moving-image, collage, choreography, sound and writing, Williams's practice explores the possibilities of non-human centric living.

Somerset House Studios

New Wing

Sam Williams is an artist with a research based practice that intertwines moving-image, collage, choreography, sound and writing. His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements, ecological systems, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they propose possibilities for present and future ways of non-human-centric living.

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Salvage Rhythms (2019-ongoing). Live performance at Chisenhale Gallery, 2023. Photo: Genevieve Reeves

Sam is based in London where he is a resident at Somerset House Studios. He has exhibited and screened work at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery, Arnolfini, Siobhan Davies Dance, Somerset House, Tate Britain, Studio Voltaire and South Kiosk (UK), She Will (Norway); Kino Arsenal, Akademie der Kunst, Tanzhalle Wisenberg and B3 Biennale (Germany).

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Salvage Rhythms (2020). Installation photo, Somerset House, 2020. Photo: Tim Bowditch

Deep in The Eye and The Belly (trailer), 2023

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Sam Williams

This film champions new ways of seeing, gleaning beauty from the spaces between images and the creatures which inhabit them.

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