Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon
- When 27 Sep - 24 Nov 2024
- Where
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Address
Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021
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Hours
WED TO FRI 10AM–5PM; SAT TO SUN 12–5PM
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Phone
(02) 8936 0888
‘Eye Lash Horizon’ marks the first comprehensive survey of the concepts, media, and preoccupations that have shaped the practice of Sydney-based artist Sarah Contos over two decades. The exhibition offers a kaleidoscopic view of the human condition through four immersive installations based loosely on the brain, womb, belly, and soul.
The exhibition features video animations, textile sculptures, collaged printed fabrics, repurposed furniture and objects, and aluminium cast forms to create dynamic spaces which contrast harmony and anarchic play. Diverse materials and methods of making challenge our expectations of the handmade and manufactured, analogue and digital technologies, and the intersection of natural and synthetic realms.
Each space features works that weave together a tapestry of images and forms linked to the artist’s enduring interest in how art history, film, fashion, and popular culture inform our collective memories. For Contos, the process of making art involves equal experiences of recognition and mystery where the porous fibres and surfaces of objects become animated capturing histories, ideas, and emotions.
‘Eye Lash Horizon’ points to ideas of proximity and limits— what we see from a distance, what we perceive up close, and the twilight space between.
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Curated by Karen Hall
This project has been supported by the UNSW Galleries New Contemporaries Fund and has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.



Exhibition Tour with Sarah Contos
2.00–3.00pm Saturday 12 October 2024
Join artist Sarah Contos and exhibition curator Karen Hall for a walkthrough of ‘Eye Lash Horizon’. Together, they will discuss significant moments throughout the exhibition that highlight the artist's unique process—one that balances recognition and mystery, animating the porous fibres and surfaces of objects to capture histories, ideas, and emotions.

Tile and Banner Image: Sarah Contos, Universes Built and Destroyed in a Dressing Room of a Protagonist Yet to be Born, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Naarm/ Melbourne. Photography: Jacquie Manning.
Exhibition Documentation: Installation view, 'Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon', UNSW Galleries, 2024. Courtesy the artist and STATION Melbourne and Sydney. Pictured: 1. MoTH-eRR 2023; 2. Orb Skins 2024, Moulting TV Sunburn 2024, She Daemon Cracks 2024, and Spider Earth Spit and Froth 2024; 3. Where Old Trees Are Spaceships and Rocks Are Snow 2024, Gravity Above 2024 and Gravity Below 2024. Photography: Jacquie Manning.