Without a doubt, my visit to this exhibition was the most influential in helping me to shape my final major project. Idris Khan is renowned for his works across medium including sculpture, painting and photography, all encompassing his layering technique to 'arrive at the essence of the image'. The exhibition. 'Conflicting Lines' held at the Victoria Miro Gallery featured large scale composite photographs made from a series of oil stick paintings. Khan went through the process of overlaying the lines of the writing repeatedly until the text became obscured; a technique which I had previously experimented with. Walking through the gallery, a single piece of work particularly drew me in, 'Untitled, White on white'; a large painting on aluminium, with layers of text radiating from a centre point. The fact that both the writing and the oil based relief ink were a blinding shade of white left the text utterly obscured, and upon touching the canvas, I realised that one could feel the subtle impressions of the text stamped into the relief ink.
Upon seeing this piece of work, I knew that I wanted to pick up my work with text and take it a step further. In effect, I would be producing two pieces for my final major project; a film and an installation, both of which would have to poetically compliment the other.
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