IDRIS KHAN
Born in Birmingham in 1978, Idris Khan received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2004. Khan's work challenges our assumptions about various media - how they are received and digested. Words and music, which we experience sequentially and which gain power from repetition are to an extent robbed of their function by becoming almost solid images.
Employing seminal texts, musical scores and paintings as well as key works from the photographic oeuvre, Idris Khan transforms the cool art of appropriation into a meditation about authorship and time. Khan often photographs a variety of material - sometimes borrowed, sometimes of his own creation - and digitally layers the results. The results spark new thoughts about the original content, or open up seams of interpretation. Khan has had a major solo exhibition at K20, Düsseldorf in 2008 and his most recent international exhibitions include: The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto 2009; Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris 2009; Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow 2009; IKON, Birmingham 2009; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2009; Andalusian Centre of Photography, Spain 2008; and Art Dubai 2008. Khan’s work features in the forthcoming exhibition Haunted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York 2010, which will travel to the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. The artist lives and works in London.