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.
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The exhibit is awash in layers of recycled information that settle into sedimentary compositions blurring the lines between objectivity and abstraction.