Idris Khan [HYBRID CONTENT]

Khan first gained attention for work in which he used digital technology to overlay and combine series of visual or textual work: every Bernd and Hilla Becher photograph of a gable-sided house, every page of the Quran, every late Constable painting, every stave of Chopin's Nocturnes. While photographic in nature, the resulting images possess characteristics more akin to drawing or painting and are presented as a kind of palimpsest, animated by the accumulative intervention of the artist's hand. https://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/14-idris-khan/

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He is of the age mind time beyond single frame or material. He uses a method, not a material to involve.

[b 1978 - ] He studied photography at the University of Derby and completed his Master's Degree in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London in 2004.

early example: https://cristearoberts.com/artists/...d-and-hilla-becher-spherical-gasholders-2008/

Very interesting.
I'm going to move this to the Photographers sub-forum, because while it certainly reflects on philosophy, it is mostly about the results.
And while it doesn't hurt to point out that hybrid techniques and materials are involved, discussions about the work of people who use or re-interpret photographic techniques or processes do not have to be segregated here on Photrio. Some people may choose not to read further, but that is there choice.

As interesting as his work can be, it's also quite safe, saleable conceptualism (i.e. sufficiently not photography to be easily saleable to contemporary art audiences - and a style that can be borrowed by art directors to inject art into what they perceive as boring pictures of people and things) that suited a particular kind of lazily ideological teleology of sinecured/ institutional(-ised?) theorists whose brains started to grow moss sometime after their supply of French post-structuralists (or that particular kind of philosophy as public performance art) started to keel over. You don't get an OBE at the age of 39 for rocking the boat and asking difficult questions.