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The sculpture represents the volume of photography in the modern age and draws attention to the almost forgotten art of photographic printing, in our ever more digitised world.

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a piece inspired by Olivier Messiaen who was a jew living in a concentration camp during WW11. A violent act of sand blasting leaves behind a delicate mark and reminds us of how Messiaen created this music by scratching the rusted steel wall of his camp.
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might feel intimidated stood next to it

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The sculpture is in the shape of an exclamation mark, tapering outwards in defined blocks the taller it gets (each block references a standard photographic print size).

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The sculpture is in the shape of an exclamation mark, tapering outwards in defined blocks the taller it gets (each block references a standard photographic print size).

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Standing just around the corner from Tate Modern, it is Khan’s first public sculpture in the UK, and he hopes it will trigger passersby to take a moment to reflect on their own time.

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“It has always been about trying to change the photographic practice into something that looked like painting or drawing,” 

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“It has always been about trying to change the photographic practice into something that looked like painting or drawing,” 

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Aluminium

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there are plants and trees surrounding the building.

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The abstract, eight-meter high column is formed of several blocks, which are stacked on top of each other growing in size towards the top; their dimensions representing the standard sizes of photographic prints

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“Photography was a way into being creative,”

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“Photography was a way into being creative,”

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“It almost feels like the rings of a tree,” 

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“It almost feels like the rings of a tree,” 

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“I’m not there to say how many pictures you should take, but in some ways, I think it’s about the ownership we have over certain things. That comes first before the experience”

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Commissioned by the London Borough of Southwark as part of the One Blackfriars Public Art Programme

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write something fantastic

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"There was always a sort of flatness I wanted to rebel against"

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methodist hospital

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“It’s quite a moving thing to think that this was five years of my life,”

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“It’s quite a moving thing to think that this was five years of my life,” 

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“It’s quite a moving thing to think that this was five years of my life,” 

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“That time has gone, but this, in some ways, is what’s left of it.”

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“That time has gone, but this, in some ways, is what’s left of it.”

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Khan wanted to create a sculpture that considers our obsession with mass-image-making, and which attempts to capture, if possible, an entire length or period of time in physical form.

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In an interview, Khan talked about his incredible use of storage for his photographs. He was inspired by the amount of images society takes, even as individuals we take a large amunt. This sculpture compresses 65,000 photographs into one piece of art to reflect this.

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a building

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 “It is about using the physicality of a photograph to show time”

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 “It is about using the physicality of a photograph to show time”

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MADE IN LONDON

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“There is this idea that cameras have replaced our eyes; we want to photograph everything before we even see it. We are all guilty of it”