I DR I S K HAN CONFLICTING LINES
I DR I S K HAN CONFLICTING LINES
Victoria Miro
Painting 4, 23/01/2015 Disappearing Line in progress
Palimpsest Imtiaz Dharker
How to live again, when all the finished words have been scraped off to leave the parchment clean. How to come back willing for new events to be scratched on old skin, to be reused in unforeseen languages, to be spread on a table under infrared and inch by inch be studied, screened, stripped down to the subtext. Ultraviolet looks through the layers to the thing they mean, the last flake of ink embedded in a single thread, something holding on to nothing, speech holding on to silence, one mark holding on to the abyss as if all life depended on it.
Conflicting Lines, 2015 C-Type Print mounted on aluminium 165 x 195 cm 65 x 76 3/4 in detail overleaf
A Blanket of White, 2015 C-Type Print mounted on aluminium 165 x 195 cm 65 x 76 3/4 in detail overleaf
A Grey Bucket, 2015 C-Type Print mounted on aluminium 165 x 195 cm 65 x 76 3/4 in detail overleaf
Disappearing Line, 2015 Silver Gelatin Print mounted on rag board and aluminium 50.8 x 61 cm 20 x 24 in
A Field of Dust, 2015 Silver Gelatin Print mounted on rag board and aluminium 50.8 x 61 cm 20 x 24 in
Church Walk Studio 9, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in detail overleaf
Church Walk Studio 10, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in
Church Walk Studio 11, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in detail overleaf
Church Walk Studio 12, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in detail overleaf
Church Walk Studio 13, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in
Church Walk Studio 14, 2015 Platinum Palladium Print 37.1 x 47.2 cm (paper size) 14 5/8 x 18 5/8 in detail overleaf
Idris Khan would like to thank Annie and their two children Maude and Jam for all their love and sleepless nights whilst making this body of work. I love you.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Idris Khan
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Conflicting Lines
1 May - 6 June 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair · 14 St George Street · London W1S 1FE
Palimpsest, by Imtiaz Dharker, from the anthology of her poems Over the Moon (Bloodaxe Books, 2014). Reproduced with the kind permission of Imtiaz Dharker and Bloodaxe Books Edited by Matt Price Design by Martin Lovelock All works © Idris Khan All images courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London Platinum Palladium Prints by 31 Studio, England Photography of the Platinum Palladium Prints by Alasdair Ogilvie/Damnable-Iron Productions The images accompanying and immediately following Imtiaz Dharker’s poem Palimpsest document different stages in the development of the finished works. Printed and bound by PUSH Published by Victoria Miro 2015 ISBN 978 0 9931798 0 8 © Victoria Miro All rights reserved. No part of this book should be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording or information storage or retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
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