Idris Khan is an artist comfortable operating in the interstitial zones between translation and interpretation, absence and presence, and a more expansive apperception of art historical indexicality. His first one-person show in the United States, in Santiago Calatrava’s soaring wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum brings together multiple, distinct phases of the artist’s career that evince a restless search to capture the generic profundity of meaning in itself. Along the way he leaves room for discursive detours of misinterpretation that wind up opening virtual pathways of romantic longing.
Image: Idris Khan, Bach.... Six Suites for the Solo Cello, 2006
© Idris Khan
May 29 2024
