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Idris Khan takes inspiration from a diverse range of cultural sources. He borrows photographs, musical scores and theological texts and uses digital technology to create layered images that push his source materials to the point of abstraction.

In each of these photographs, Khan has overlayed photographs by celebrated German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose own works are displayed on the adjacent wall. The resulting composites take on the appearance of charcoal drawings. Khan became fascinated by the rise of digital photography in the early 2000s and the resulting proliferation of images. As an artist, rather than creating new images and adding to the deluge, he chose to reinterpret existing photographs and texts. Through a process of accumulation, repetition and superimposition, Khan brings emotion, energy and movement to static images.