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SELECTED WORKS BY Idris Khan



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Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable sided Houses

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm

Working with appropriated imagery, Idris Khan’s photos are all-encompassing composites, consolidating iconic cultural symbols of similar type into single ‘super-images’. In this selection of his every… series, Khan aggregates the work of renowned artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, famous for their vast photographic collections of buildings and industrial sites. Exposed in translucent layers, anchored by the compositions’ continuous shapes, the Becher’s gasholders and gabled houses loose their commanding simplicity and rigid formalism, descending into fractured and gestural blurs merely suggestive of the originals. Through this process of layering, Khan creates a poetic malleability from the fixed codes of history. Compressing the timeline of repetition into indivisible subsuming moments, his photos offer a glimpse into the sublime.


Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Prison type Gasholders

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm


Idris Khan

every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical type Gasholders

2004
photographic print (framed)

208 x 160 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




Idris Khan's BIOGRAPHY



1978
Born in Birmingham


EXHIBITIONS


2005
To be continued… Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Regeneration – 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne,
Switzerland
Young Masters, 148a St. John Street, London
Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Saatchi Gallery, London.

2004
Photo Paris represented by The Photographers Gallery.
Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
Frieze Art Fair, London.
Arttissima, Turin.
Arrivals. Pump House Gallery, Battersea, London
On The Edge, Hiscox Gallery, London
Hoopers Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
Show 1 MA Royal College of Art
Photography 2004 Royal College of Art

2003
Auslander. The Dahl Gallery, Lucerne Switzerland
Essen Arts Festival, Folkwang Museum, Essen Germany
Another Way Is Possible, Royal College of Art, London

2001
Future Focus, The Q Gallery, Derby

2000
Courts, The City Gallery, Leicester

 
 

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