Idris Khan:

Time and Memory Encapsulated.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.7325

Keywords:

Idris Khan, Photography, Time, Memory, Visual saturation, Contemporary art

Abstract

British artist Idris Khan (Birmingham, 1978) has recently gained international acclaim by making artworks that evoke and dissolve ideas of time, memory and experience. Employing photography, painting, sculpture or moving image, and by prolonged processes of both accumulation and erasure, Khan experiments with temporal condensation and the notion of remembrance. This text examines a selection of his works from 2001 to the present. The impulse of making photographs long surpasses our ability –or time, or will– to reminisce in captured memories. This article analyses the implications and dynamics of this visual saturation through Khan’s recent work, placing it in relation to the ideas of authors and thinkers who address this growing problem.

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Author Biography

Salvador Jiménez-Donaire-Martínez, Universidad de Sevilla, España

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville (Extraordinary End of Degree Award; Collaboration Grant in the Department of Drawing by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture; Real Maestranza Award to the Academic Excellence), Master in Graphic Techniques (MA Printmaking) at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England (Distinction) and Master in Research and Creation in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (Excellence Scholarship; Best Academic Record). He currently enjoys a PIF predoctoral research fellowship at the University of Seville, and has undertaken research stays at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, and the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. He has received scholarships and awards at the Miró Mallorca Foundation, the historic Student Residence in Madrid, the Martín Chirino Foundation or the Antonio Gala Foundation.

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Published

2023-12-19

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Jiménez-Donaire-Martínez, Salvador. 2023. “Idris Khan: : Time and Memory Encapsulated”. Atrio. Revista De Historia Del Arte, no. 29 (December). Sevilla, España:222-42. https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.7325.

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No. 29 (2023)

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