Born: 1978, Birmingham England
Education: University of Deby and The Royal College of Art
Current Residency: London, England
Medium: everything, mostly digital overlay
Khan works primarily digitally to create anew old subjects threw a
layering technique he developed. his techniques creates a surrealistic
abstraction of
time and
space in which things are compressed on top of
each other to create an almost ghostly appearance. He achieves this
threw both his own personal photography and threw
re appropriating
others to create his collages. “I used
70 to
100 images for each
picture. I wouldn’t necessarily take the whole image, but
fragments of
images, and bring them together on the computer."
One of his
preliminary ideas behind his work is related to the
collective photography of monuments. Such as in his work
The Houses of
Parliament, London, 2012 where he overlaid nearly a
hundred found
photographs to create an eerie representation of the British capital.
(Some personal thoughts)
WOW, do I
LOVE this guy’s work and don’t
normally say this about art that I can find in a museum but this stuff
is spectacular and oddly
emotional. I can’t really place why but they
feel
charged with some form of depressive notion. I have to say, looking
at what I’ve done with the re appropriation assignment I have
definitely been
influenced.
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