your golf course made my GPU; Project Details >>>
your golf course made my GPU, installation view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
PET lighting gel on architectural glazing, Dimensions variable (6 × 5 m as installed)
Site-specific installation (2026). Photo: Carmen Gray
Natural lighting intervention, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Natural lighting intervention, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Cut vinyl lettering, Dimensions variable (4.6 × 1.3 m as installed)
Site-specific installation (2026). Photo: Carmen Gray.
your golf course made my GPU, installation view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Thomas Adank.
your golf course made my GPU, installation view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
your golf course made my GPU, installation view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
your golf course made my GPU, installation view of 3 Channel Video, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Carmen Gray.
your golf course made my GPU, Detail view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Thomas Adank.
your golf course made my GPU, Detail view, V&A, London, 2026. Photo: Thomas Adank.
your golf course made my GPU, Video, 10’40 (2025)
PET film, golf-bunker sand, 0.6 × 0.7 × 0.45 m
Unique work in series (2026). Photo: Carmen Gray.
PET film, golf-bunker sand, 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.45 m
Unique work in series (2026). Photo: Carmen Gray.
PET film, golf-bunker sand, 1.6 × 1.1 × 0.45 m
Unique work in series (2026). Photo: Carmen Gray.
PET film, golf-bunker sand, 0.6 × 0.7 × 0.45 m
Unique work in series (2026). Photo: Thomas Adank.
PET film, golf-bunker sand, 2.1 × 1.4 × 0.45 m
Unique work in series (2026). Photo: Thomas Adank.
Coloured PET film, reflective Mylar, printed Foamex, glass beads, quartz crystals, quartz oscillators; installed on existing image-display grid, 2.4 × 2.4 m (as installed)
Unique work (2026). Photo: Thomas Adank.
Coloured PET film, reflective Mylar, printed Foamex, glass beads, quartz crystals, quartz oscillators; installed on existing image-display grid, 2.4 × 2.4 m (as installed)
Unique work (2026). Photo: Thomas Adank.
Detail view. Photo: Thomas Adank.
Detail view. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Detail view. Photo: Thomas Adank.
Detail view. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Detail view. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Detail view. Photo: Carmen Gray.
Detail view (2025). Photo: Carmen Gray.
when you have mixed feelings about your phone 12
Detail view (2025). Photo: Carmen Gray.every once in a while you're probably convinced of paradise 10,
Detail view (2025). Photo: Carmen Gray.your golf course made my GPU, installation view, YveYANG Gallery, New York, 2026. Courtesy YveYANG Gallery.
every once in a while you're probably convinced of paradise 10,
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 20 x 20 cm each, Frame: 29 x 29 x 6 cm each (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (each) (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
your golf course made my GPU, 3 Channel Video, 10’40 (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
when you have mixed feelings about your phone 12,
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
UV Print on Silicon Wafer, 30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm (2025)
The eponymous video traces three planetary trajectories. One is the rare, pure silica used both for microchips in our devices and for sand traps at the world’s most exclusive golf courses. Another follows China’s largest sand dredger, said to “edit the map” as it terraforms islands from scratch like a video game. Lastly, quartz crystals are introduced into atomic clocks, which discipline a shared subscription to time through networking. In seeking the new, this mineral, ground down over millions of years, is made to eat its own tail faster than it can be swallowed.
A curved horizon of screens display the video in which layers of found footage from industrial commercials, leisure developments, hobbyist cultures, and the 1964 Japanese thriller Woman in the Dunes, are each brushed away like pixelated sediment. Singing sand dunes, an acoustic phenomenon of deserts, haunt the soundscape beneath a relentless pulse.
A series of UV prints on silicon wafers invoke the Tondo, the round Renaissance painting traditionally used for devotional scenes. Angels and nymphs in these reappropriations of Botticelli become anticipatory spectators, while their devotional subjects are substituted with globalizing agents, from quarry stockpiles to artificial islands. These silicon wafers, discs containing microchips with billions of transistors etched at the nanometer scale, will eventually become GPUs or memory chips. Framing the prints are sand dunes that have been sedimented by hand and reprinted in plastic; an invention of the landscape as a fiction that can always be remade.
Computing, and the visions it purports to promise, can’t escape its material sources.
“your golf course made my GPU” at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival (2026).
Photographs: Carmen Gray and Thomas Adank.
Curated by Kristian Volsing and Produced by Katya Spiers. Special thanks to Callum Palmer and YveYANG Gallery.
Supported by the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom.
“your golf course made my GPU” at YveYANG Gallery (2025).
Photographs courtesy of YveYANG Gallery.
Special thanks to Erica Kyung and Lulu Meng.
WORKS
your golf course made my GPU
Video (1 and 3 Channel edits)
10'40
Edition of 4 + 1 AP
(2024/2025).
when you have mixed feelings about your phone
UV Print on Silicon Wafer
30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm
Series with 4 unique editions
(2025).
every once in a while you're probably convinced of paradise
UV Print on Silicon Wafer
30 x 30 cm, Frame: 45 x 45 x 6 cm
Series with 2 unique editions
(2025).
sometimes you drown, but you're not sure if it's pleasure or guilt
UV Print on Silicon Wafer
20 x 20 cm, Frame: 29 x 29 x 6 cm each
Series with 2 unique editions
(2023/2025).
Earthly Edge Maintenance #1-4
PET film, golf-bunker sand
Variable sizes
Unique works in series
(2026).
Prompt #1
Cut vinyl lettering
Dimensions variable (4.6 × 1.3 m as installed)
Site-specific installation
(2026).
you have trouble unsubscribing to things
Coloured PET film, reflective Mylar, printed Foamex, glass beads, quartz crystals, quartz oscillators; installed on existing image-display grid.
2.4 × 2.4 m (as installed)
Unique work
(2026).
after the thought that you were right
PET lighting gel on architectural glazing
Dimensions variable (6 × 5 m as installed)
Site-specific installation
(2026).
“Sam Ghantous Finds Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap” by Jamin Warren in Killscreen Magazine
“Exhibition Review—Sam Ghantous: "your golf course made my GPU" at YveYang, New York City”by Yihsuan Chiu in Whitehot Magazine.
“An Artist’s High-Tech Works Have Been Held Up in Customs. Are Tariffs to Blame?”by Brian Boucher in Artnet.
PRESS RELEASE
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/mbyKoqRwZR3/ldf-sept-2026-sam-ghantous
https://www.yveyang.com/exhibitions/your-golf-course-made-my-gpu
INSTALLATION DRAWING