The English artist Idris Khan (b. 1978) explores temporality and origin through digitally processed photographs. He investigates authorship and duration and transforms books such as the Quran, photos and musical pieces by Beethoven into layered images. He turns time related experiences into a single vision. He photographs each page and comprises all the photos in one. By his innovative practice he manages to both comprise and deconstruct the expectation of the photographic instance. He does not frieze time, but unfolds it in a poetic and alternative way of using the photographic media. Idris Khan’s work is an enigmatic play of appropriation and re-creation. Combining analog and digital photographic techniques, his works possess characteristics more akin to drawing or painting, animated by the accumulative intervention.
