Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the current owner through Victoria Miro Gallery, 2010.

Property of a Collector.

Notes

“Whilst Khan’s mindset is more painterly than photographic, he often employs the tools of photomechanical reproduction to create his work. Photographing or scanning from secondary source material – sheet music, pages from the Qur’an, reproductions of late Caravaggio paintings – he then builds up the layers of scans digitally, which allows him to meticulously control minute variances in contrast, brightness and opacity. The resultant images are often large-scale C-prints with surfaces that have a remarkable optical intensity.”¹

^1. Sean Kelly, Idris Khan, online, https://www.skny.com/artists/idris-khan, accessed 12 August 2024.